1 What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the side of the wind to Gex.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 2 Youth combined with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without wind.
3 He was the priest who beholds all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a passer-by spit upon his idol.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 4 The most prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with lead in order not to be blown away by the wind.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 5 Paris has a capital, the Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; and it replaces the Gemoniae by ridicule.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 6 He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 7 There can be no fleet, if, beside the sailing ship, that plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of necessity, there is not the vessel which goes where it pleases, either by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what steamers are to-day.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 8 Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's.
9 All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of Isis, almost to the height of her garter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY