1 The slaves, my companions, those who had taken them, soldiers, sailors, blacks, whites, mulattoes, and at last my captain, all were killed, and I remained dying on a heap of dead.
2 These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, which form a heap among the nettles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 3 At last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing where there was a great heap of whitish stones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE... 4 He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of use, in the most remote corner of the shed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 5 In a corner, on a tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin woman and a number of children were piled in a heap.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI... 6 A heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN 7 She had pulled an old sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap of iron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU... 8 In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 9 Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner near the heap of old iron with their feet.
10 This is caused by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH 11 He had the mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing a Raphael in a heap of daubs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES 12 It was a heap of filth and it was Sinai.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 13 They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondetour lane, of which they were still the masters.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO... 14 Among the heap they could distinguish a livid face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a woman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE 15 Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES