1 It seemed to be a sort of rite with him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 2 Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the marshes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 3 The nocturnal prowler whom we have just shown to the reader was going in that direction.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 4 The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 5 Nevertheless, whatever may be the contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this is it: disinterestedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 6 The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 7 Jean Valjean, a thoughtful man, and given to nocturnal strolls, often returned quite late at night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT 8 Thenardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was kept in sight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 9 It did not even occur to him to tell her about the nocturnal adventure in the hovel, about Thenardier, about the burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS 10 After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its tranquil, nocturnal aspect.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT 11 This multitude undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS 12 It was one of those intermissions which frequently occur in nocturnal combats, which are always followed by an increase of rage.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE... 13 Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of the centuries, halos of civilization.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 14 A hundred years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the pickpocket in danger slipped thither; the forest had its cave, Paris had its sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 15 It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.