1 He had the small gut of the Mondetour lane, which had been left open up to that time, barricaded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED 2 What used to be called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is now called a surveying orifice.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS 3 The passage terminated in another gut which he encountered across his path.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 4 There were men to cut it, and men to split it, and men to gut it and scrape it clean inside.
5 This country had a grim will of its own, and the people had guts.
6 The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage.
7 I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with india rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces.
8 Why should I believe you, Clifford, when I feel that whatever God there is has at last wakened up in my guts, as you call them, and is rippling so happily there, like dawn.
9 There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked--and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.
10 One curious thing he had noticed, the very first day, in his profession of shoveler of guts; which was the sharp trick of the floor bosses whenever there chanced to come a "slunk" calf.