1 , the grand age; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings; a concert, a musical solemnity; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO... 2 Neither that illustrious England nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 3 There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 4 The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, and the necessary base of her politics.
5 That which had been merely illustrious, had become august.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 6 There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing Caesar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 7 There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 8 It is in this house, of two stories only, that an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years before.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 9 An illustrious person sends you; an illustrious person awaits you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME 10 The aldermen did as they had done before, and preceded by their sergeants, advanced to receive their illustrious guest.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON 11 No doubt the host knew what illustrious visitor was expected, and had consequently sent intruders out of the way.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 12 His Eminence is the most illustrious politician of times past, of times present, and probably of times to come.
13 No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and illustrious.
14 They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.
15 Still, consider that although I may not be, strictly speaking, what is termed an illustrious match for you, I am, for many reasons, not altogether so much beneath your alliance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 51. Pyramus and Thisbe.