1 The staircase led to a very vast edifice which resembled a shed which had been converted into a house.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 2 Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 3 This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA 4 Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed that he was coming to some arched windows, where he perceived a light.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA 5 It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 6 Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 7 A subterranean edifice erected in common by all the miserable.
8 Misuse of public funds, waste and corruption had reached such proportions during his administration that the edifice was toppling of its own weight.
9 These children of the woods stood together for several moments pointing at the crumbling edifice, and conversing in the unintelligible language of their tribe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 10 A sad silence was upon the little guarding edifice.
11 From the edifice a tall leaning tower of smoke went far into the sky.
12 The wooden edifice itself had dark-grey walls and a red-gabled roof, for it was a mansion of the kind which Russia builds for her military settlers and for German colonists.
13 They have a marvellous edifice of that pattern which endures for ever--the ant-heap.
14 He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed.
15 On the one hand there is fear and regret for the loss of the whole edifice constructed through the ages, on the other is the passion for destruction.