1 But on the eighth of August a committee, consisting of Field Marshal Saltykov, Arakcheev, Vyazmitinov, Lopukhin, and Kochubey met to consider the progress of the war.
2 These first days, before the eighth of September when the prisoners were had up for a second examination, were the hardest of all for Pierre.
3 When the troops reached their night's halting place on the eighth of November, the last day of the Krasnoe battles, it was already growing dusk.
4 He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier commanded, and which captured Hamburg.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 5 On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light in them.
6 They counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 7 "Well, never mind," answered Caderousse, pouring out a glass of wine for Fernand, and filling his own for the eighth or ninth time, while Danglars had merely sipped his.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 8 Upon the eighth day he discerned a small vessel under full sail approaching Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 9 But you must come a little beforehand, so as to be on the spot by the eighth.
10 In the living-room Vida and Kennicott debated "the value of manual training in grades below the eighth," while Carol sat beside Guy at the dining table, buttering pop-corn.
11 It were sin to doubt it, maiden," replied Ivanhoe; "and I repose myself on thy skill without further scruple or question, well trusting you will enable me to bear my corslet on the eighth day.