1 One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on the grated front of his shop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 2 See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a big loaf from the baker.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE... 3 As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, foreseeing that he should not dine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU... 4 The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 5 The baker could not repress a smile, and as he cut the white bread he surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 6 As they tore their bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 7 There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread at the baker's and that is having no money to purchase drugs at the apothecary's.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 8 The sixth was not straight enough; so she said he was like a green stick, that had been laid to dry over a baker's oven.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In KING GRISLY-BEARD 9 Then, in the evening, I shall go to the theatre; I shall look like some retired baker.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 64. The Beggar. 10 The administration of mutton instead of medicine, the substitution of Tea for Joe, and the baker for bacon, were among the mildest of my own mistakes.
11 He was naturally a very nervous, shuddering sort of little fellow, this bread-faced steward; the progeny of a bankrupt baker and a hospital nurse.
12 In a solitary window a light is flickering where some good burgher is mending his boots, or a baker drawing a batch of dough.
13 Just so with whaling, which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers.