1 There is a sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, that you must not enter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 2 The universe appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT 3 The battle of Waterloo is an enigma.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 4 The enigma was more impenetrable than ever.
5 Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.
6 Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem will be solved.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 7 Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the dragon, and behind the second the sphinx.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 8 Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 9 This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 10 Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter seemed an innate quality of her being.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 11 Levin tried to understand him, and could not understand him, and looked at him and his life as at a living enigma.
12 Levin tried through her to get a solution of the weighty enigma her husband presented to his mind; but he had not complete freedom of ideas, because he was in an agony of embarrassment.
13 She surveyed my whole person: in her eyes I read that they had there found no charm powerful enough to solve the enigma.
14 I waited now his return; eager to disburthen my mind, and to seek of him the solution of the enigma that perplexed me.
15 The man was an enigma to Franz.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.