1 "I think sending him abroad is much the same as punishing a carp by putting it into the water," said Levin.
2 One was what he had said about the carp, the other was something not "quite the thing" in the tender sympathy he was feeling for Anna.
3 Now suppose that next day, one of these eels, or pike, or carp, poisoned at the fourth remove, is served up at your table.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 4 Then she had a glimpse of silver--the great carp himself, who came to the surface so very seldom.
5 All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.
6 Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.
7 A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 8 Hucheloup had invented a capital thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, which he called carpes au gras.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 9 With him disappeared the secret of stuffed carps.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION