1 He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 2 That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is certainly unexpected.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? 3 She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR 4 They were unjust to the eagle, we are unjust to the fleur-de-lys.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 5 , nor the eagle scream of Napoleon.
6 Brennus, who takes Rome, is an eagle; the banker who takes the grisette is an eagle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 7 He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer darkness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW 8 An owl forced to the gaze of an eagle.
9 He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts wallowed on the earth and soared, now like the hydra, now like the eagle.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 10 He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS 11 When she had thus spoken, she flew away in the form of an eagle, and all marvelled as they beheld it.
12 I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each of them till he had killed them all.
13 But Ulysses gave a great cry, and gathering himself together swooped down like a soaring eagle.
14 The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.
15 The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.