1 The heirs at once gave out the order for the demolishing of Shipley.
2 There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 3 But conquest is as far from setting up any government, as demolishing an house is from building a new one in the place.
4 A portion of this building has recently been demolished.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 5 The republican government demolished and cut through it.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 6 This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number has probably been changed in those revolutions of numeration which the streets of Paris undergo.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE 7 So that it was the house which demolished the coppersmith.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 8 The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 9 Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to console the widowed proprietress.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP 10 At the most there was an omnibus wheel broken, and the old Anceau cart was demolished.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED 11 The facade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 12 Nothing is more dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by the piles of the mill on the bridge, now demolished.
13 Then was heard a great noise of fagots being removed and of the groaning of posts; these were the counterscarps and bastions of Athos, which the besieged himself demolished.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS 14 The split-rail fence around the kitchen garden had been demolished and the once orderly rows of green plants had suffered the same treatment as those at Tara.
15 Fritchley, a perfect old Georgian mansion, was even now, as Connie passed in the car, being demolished.