1 The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to this couplet a sort of strange grandeur.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON 2 A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 3 To each discharge he retorted with a couplet.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 4 I went up to him as he was singing a love ditty and looking tenderly at a lady, and interrupted him exactly in the middle of the second couplet.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 5 Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.
Great Expectations By Charles DickensGet Context In Chapter VII 6 There are couplets to be sung in four places.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 7 All that the bourgeois have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive couplets.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH