1 If he glued it together the next morning months might elapse before his wife noticed what had happened, and meanwhile he might after all be able to match the dish at Shadd's Falls or Bettsbridge.
2 I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
3 It might be that a long interval would elapse ere the White Whale was seen.
4 When the man and Cosette had taken their departure, Thenardier allowed a full quarter of an hour to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred francs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 5 In this manner a certain time elapsed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH 6 Since then nine months have elapsed, at fifteen francs a month, the price agreed upon, which makes one hundred and thirty-five francs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 7 Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD... 8 In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their appearance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 9 Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on his knees on the wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS 10 About a quarter of an hour elapsed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 11 A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the Luxembourg.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ... 12 Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since Marius had paid for two.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING 13 A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was heard, which rapidly retreated and died away.
14 But days, weeks, months, elapsed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF 15 Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT