1 A mill to cut up lumber and plane it.
2 She touched his ear, smoothed the plane of his solid jaw, and, turning away again, concentrated upon liking his town.
3 So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape.
4 Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view of this skull is as the side of a moderately inclined plane resting throughout on a level base.
5 All afternoon, wherever one went in the house, one could hear the panting wheeze of the saw or the pleasant purring of the plane.
6 Grandmother began to make the icing for a chocolate cake, and Otto again filled the house with the exciting, expectant song of the plane.
7 He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he could be derided.
8 His body was coiled up on this inclined plane and his feet touched the ground.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL 9 The exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT 10 This inclined plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die of thirst, but the eye is gratified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 11 To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did not mount by the inclined plane for watering.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 12 This fragment of the vaulting, partly submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this plane, he was safe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 13 Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 14 A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane of the watering-place, was on the shore.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ... 15 Debray was admitted to the house for this grand ceremony, but on the same plane with every one else, and without any particular privilege.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 96. The Contract.