1 In his clear glance, in his firm tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something calculated to disconcert death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 2 He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master seemed pleased.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 4 Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though incapable of speaking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 5 The man appeared to be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have retired from the service.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME... 6 He was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS... 7 He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged him back energetically into the hovel.
8 The head was held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 9 The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in the iron staple.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T... 10 It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 11 The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 12 His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been.
13 He was still handsome and robust, though just a little afraid of the new world that had sprung up around him.
14 The woman was young, but of a robust and hardy make, as she need have been to bear the weight of the heavy bundle which was strapped to her back.
15 Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived; which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachments.