1 She walked to the long pier glass and looked at herself, her head held high.
2 Everywhere on the walls were gilt-framed mirrors and long pier glasses--as many, Rhett said idly, as there were in Belle Watling's establishment.
3 to every traveler, since the former sustains the pier of a.
4 The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street.
5 Thus the coastguard on duty on the eastern side of the harbour, who at once ran down to the little pier, was the first to climb on board.
6 When I arrived, however, I found already assembled on the pier a crowd, whom the coastguard and police refused to allow to come on board.
7 The wayfarer bent over and examined a rather large circular excavation, resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot of the pier of the door.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 8 The officer leaped to the pier, and offered his hand to Milady.
9 She could not believe the evidence of her hand, and went up to the pier glass to see whether she really had done her hair.
10 When we reached Albion Place they were out; we went after them, and found them on the pier: Mrs. and the two Miss Sneyds, with others of their acquaintance.
11 Natasha stepped back to look at herself in the pier glass.
12 A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through which the view seems somehow further away than it really is.
13 Between the two piers there is a narrow opening into the harbour, which then suddenly widens.
14 It was found necessary to clear the entire piers from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalities of the night would have been increased manifold.