1 It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO... 2 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 3 A young girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in the wind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 4 On festival days and Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large reading-desk with four places.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 5 There is no festival which comes up to an execution on the Place de Greve.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI... 6 The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 7 So that we may say that Paris's great prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, is its sewer system.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 8 I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 9 It is impossible that this sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to the infinite.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 10 Anyone who had seen her sleeping might have said she was a young girl dreaming of the crown of flowers she was to wear on her brow at the next festival.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 11 As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until they were all ruddy and glowing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 12 Radiating royalty, complacency, good humour, the wild child was Queen of the festival.
13 Exiled from its festival, the music turned ironical.
14 The Lady Rowena," he said, "possesses not the language in which to reply to your courtesy, or to sustain her part in your festival.
15 Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby.