1 But there were no pigeons in the dove-cot, no horses in the stable, no pigs in the sty, no malt in the storehouse, no smells of grains and beer in the copper or the vat.
2 The unravaged state was a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.
3 The old smoke-stained storehouses on either side, rose heavy and dull from the dense mass of roofs and gables, and frowned sternly upon water too black to reflect even their lumbering shapes.
4 Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their charge.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER V—THE OLD MAN