1 This catastrophe made a great noise for some hours.
2 There will be some sort of catastrophe in this town to-night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 3 We might almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a peasant's head.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 4 Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final catastrophe.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD 5 We have described the catastrophe of the road of Ohain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 6 And he had not even the time for deliberation, so great was the fury with which the scene before his eyes was hastening to its catastrophe.
7 Extreme as was the crisis, inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water.
8 It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 9 The Thenardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 10 The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply impossible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 11 After the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 12 The catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP 13 At the very sight of it, one felt the agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 14 Then it becomes resigned, and stoically accepts catastrophe in lieu of triumph.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 15 A priori, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...