1 He remained where he was, petrified like the statue of salt, not daring to make a movement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 2 Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, which is waiting to be put away somewhere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT... 3 Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried off by a large ball.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 4 There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into granite.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 5 The column of Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore on high the statue of a people.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 6 The Brutus who killed Caesar was in love with the statue of a little boy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 7 This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 8 There stood on the great square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; this statue represented Episthates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 9 One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching onward.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST 10 He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 11 The young girl is only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue.
12 But at the sight of the young man, who detached himself from the wall like a statue walking from its niche, and at the noise of the steps which she heard resound behind her, Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 13 Her lips were cold; it appeared to d'Artagnan that he had embraced a statue.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE 14 On seeing this figure, mute and immovable as a statue, Milady was frightened.
15 No voice replied to hers; the carriage continued to roll on with rapidity; the officer seemed a statue.