1 Invisible combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the sepulchre concealed in the density of night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS 2 They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating above the barricade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER III—GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJ... 3 The depth of the fontis varied, as well as their length and their density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 4 The mire bears up more or less, according to its density.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 5 The density, which was his support, was also an obstacle.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 6 Moreover, by thrusting Thenardier back into the very remotest depths, through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density of the shadows which enveloped this man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 7 Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us.
8 It originated in the simplicity of the Indian contests, in which, from the nature of the combats, and the density of the forests, fortresses were rare, and artillery next to useless.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 9 Their density would not enable them to understand his sharper point of view.
10 In front lay the wood, the hazel thicket nearest, the purplish density of oaks beyond.