1 This gesture, and an inspection of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thenardier passed in review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the gruff mien to reappear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 2 The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 3 The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ENCOU... 4 One felt that under other conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this young girl might have turned out sweet and charming.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY 5 The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT... 6 Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial mien.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 7 He found him noble, handsome, distinguished, well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 8 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 9 The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize him was rude of aspect, and must have been rude to encounter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 10 A man was introduced of simple mien, who had the appearance of a tradesman.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 11 She continued to gaze at him through the twilight with a mien of wan authority, as of one consciously singled out for a great fate.
12 The words were barely uttered, when he encountered a savage of gigantic stature, of the fiercest mien.
13 Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 14 Let us make for the rocks on the main," he said, with the mien of a tired soldier, "and give battle to the savages.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 15 The young Mohican cast a glance at his father, but, maintaining his quiet and reserved mien, he continued silent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21