1 In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very month when Napoleon was crowned.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 2 All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays or by icy winds.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 3 However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the same severity in other convents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION 4 He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was pursuing him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 5 This group of victim and executioner was illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE 6 As soon as Enjolras folded his arms and accepted his end, the din of strife ceased in the room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral solemnity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK 7 Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER 8 It was the sepulchral moment which follows midnight.
9 Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
10 The moon shining through the open blinds made the lamp appear to burn paler, and cast a sepulchral hue over the whole scene.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 11 Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.
12 As the dying cadence of his strains was falling on the ears of the latter, he started aside at hearing them repeated behind him, in a voice half human and half sepulchral.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 13 "Snuffbox," said Jo, in a sepulchral tone, which convulsed the audience.
14 Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 15 This well was deep, and it was turned into a sepulchre.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT