1 The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 2 He was dilapidated but still in flower.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 3 This man had the air of a person who is seeking lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE... 4 He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all covered with ashes and dried mud.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 5 But the pipe was dilapidated and past service, and hardly hung to its fastenings.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT 6 At the age when youth swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant blushes of wretchedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 7 Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 8 This wagon, all lattice-work, was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for former punishments.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 9 The place was dilapidated and it made you cry to look at it.
10 Belated, and not innocently, one bitter winter's midnight, on the road running between two country towns, the blacksmith half-stupidly felt the deadly numbness stealing over him, and sought refuge in a leaning, dilapidated barn.
11 I saw few or no dilapidated houses, with poverty-stricken inmates; no half-naked children and barefooted women, such as I had been accustomed to see in Hillsborough, Easton, St. Michael's, and Baltimore.
12 The men wavered in indecision for a moment, and then with a long, wailful cry the dilapidated regiment surged forward and began its new journey.
13 There was a window on each side of the dilapidated entrance; and one story above; but no light was visible.
14 A vague pathway among the boulders led to the dilapidated opening which served as a door.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor 15 And perhaps the thing that struck me most was its dilapidated look.