1 The kingdom we now inhabit is the ancient country of the Incas, who quitted it very imprudently to conquer another part of the world, and were at length destroyed by the Spaniards.
2 One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 3 Before becoming a hospital, this house had been the ancient parliament house of the Bourgeois.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 4 They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 5 also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 6 They really are a very ancient Norman family of the.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 7 His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 8 Those rare dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the ancient sacred euphony.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 9 The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajae is one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters felt it with the double force contributed by religion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE 10 The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the porch, and entered the courtyard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 11 That volley of grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick building on the right of the road at a few minutes' distance before you enter Genappe.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 12 It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE 13 His sliding motion, his attitudes, his mysterious and rapid gestures, caused him to resemble those twilight larvae which haunt ruins, and which ancient Norman legends call the Alleurs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 14 Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 15 Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher Columbus and of De Ruyter is one of the masterpieces of man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...