1 That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the English firmness, the English resolution, the English blood; the superb thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 2 And she hid her blushing face on the breast of the superb and intoxicated young man.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY 3 It was unclean, despised, repulsive, and superb, ugly in the eyes of the bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 4 The vision of the action into which he felt that he was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more as lamentable, but as superb.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE 5 For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal talent, and they were superb.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 6 On the funeral pile, in shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 7 In spite of your possessing Rome, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a heroic history, sublime ruins, magnificent ruins, and superb cities, you are, like ourselves, poor.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 8 It was a superb moonlight night.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS 9 This dinner consisted of meats nicely dressed, choice wines, and superb fruit.
10 The Musketeer met with a superb Andalusian horse, black as jet, nostrils of fire, legs clean and elegant, rising six years.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 11 At the same time, Aramis made his appearance at the other end of the street upon a superb English charger.
12 Coquenard had met Porthos and seen what a superb appearance he made upon his handsome Spanish genet, she would not have regretted the bleeding she had inflicted upon the strongbox of her husband.
13 Certainly I was not the first captive that had been shut up in this splendid prison; but you may easily comprehend, Felton, that the more superb the prison, the greater was my terror.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 14 She was only seventeen, she had superb health and energy, and Charles' people did their best to make her happy.
15 To her he was a superb, boyish, diverting creature; all the heroic qualities in a manly magnificent body.