1 Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 2 Now, the coffer was too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH... 3 The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, traversed Fauchelevent's pupils.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI... 4 Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there leaps out from them a little being.
5 It was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE 6 Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 7 There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.
8 These immense enclosures alone can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable tranquillity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS 9 Great griefs contain something of dejection.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 10 Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE 11 The joy which they contain ought to make its escape through the stones of the walls in brilliancy, and vaguely illuminate the gloom.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 12 Thenardier drew from his pocket a large envelope of gray paper, which seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 13 All that the heart of a woman could contain of haughty contempt and disdainful words, I poured out upon this man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 14 Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.
15 If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, did not expect it to contain a renewal of his offers, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents.