1 It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL 2 A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct depths.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 3 He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 4 Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 5 A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 6 His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles 7 With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's plan chimerical.