1 Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the angels.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN... 2 One would have said, to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary apocalypse.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 3 She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER 4 But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, she gained in pensive and serious charm.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 5 The gamin approached this pensive personage, and began to step around him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is afraid of waking.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES 6 This was no infidelity to Cosette; it was a gentle and pensive farewell to an unhappy soul.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII—GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCE... 7 Marius was formidable and pensive.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 8 In the mysterious balance of this Jean Valjean which the pensive Marius struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive principle, and he tried to reach a balance.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 9 de Treville being paid, the pensive d'Artagnan took the longest way homeward.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 10 D'Artagnan became pensive in his turn; it appeared as if there were abysses in Milady's soul whose depths were dark and unknown.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID 11 Amy chirped like a cricket, and Jo wandered through the airs at her own sweet will, always coming out at the wrong place with a croak or a quaver that spoiled the most pensive tune.
12 Ned, getting sentimental, warbled a serenade with the pensive refrain.
13 He felt as if suddenly shaken out of a pensive dream and found it impossible to go to sleep again.
14 But she certainly did grow a little pale and pensive that spring, lost much of her relish for society, and went out sketching alone a good deal.
15 Mrs. Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression.