1 A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen hundred years it burst.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep away a cloud.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 3 Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour of bitterness, his cloud.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 4 For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the heavens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 5 At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, this cloud parted, as though on purpose, and a ray of light, traversing the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 6 The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 7 Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as the other; the chat of love is a cloud; the chat at table is smoke.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER 8 The cloud of spectators followed, jesting, in a paroxysm of delight.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT... 9 All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season sufficed to make a world crumble.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 10 They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent here and there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 11 Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended with lightning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 12 All the glasses of the staff had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW 13 The truth is, that the cloud did not move.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW 14 In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a cloud, there is something of the meteor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 15 At intervals, deep and dull mutterings allowed a judgment to be formed as to the quantity of thunder contained by the cloud.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION