1 The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennae of a pair of pincers were visible, protruding from the man's pocket.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 2 Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it vanishing within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON 3 The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering cattle.
4 At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is Thenardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart.
5 Leblanc, and took an inkstand, a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and in which gleamed the long blade of the knife.
6 Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a dagger made its appearance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 7 For my own part, I blame that last justice, the blade; but, antiquity admitted it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO... 8 Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 9 As to the rest of the blade, the master had slyly put that on one side to make himself a larding pin.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER 10 It is true that the three others had endeavored to knock the young man down with chairs, stools, and crockery; but two or three scratches made by the Gascon's blade terrified them.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 11 The blade was round, and of flexible silver.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 12 He still sought; but his eyes, darkened by death, encountered only the knife which had fallen from the hand of Felton, still smoking with the blood spread over its blade.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628 13 Then they saw from the other bank the executioner raise both his arms slowly; a moonbeam fell upon the blade of the large sword.
14 "I heard what you said about Scarlett too," cried Melanie, swinging on the stout old lady with the air of a duelist who, having withdrawn a blade from one prostrate opponent, turns hungrily toward another.
15 And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.