1 She was generally a mistress of the art of dressing well without great expense, and before leaving Moscow she had given her dressmaker three dresses to transform.
2 She hoped that this interview would transform her position, and save her.
3 Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 4 They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 5 "Very good, sir," answered Roach, wondering if he was to receive instructions to fell all the oaks in the park or to transform the orchards into water-gardens.
6 It was more than a transformation; it was a transfiguration.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 7 However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique air, was tending even then to transformation.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 8 People were undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, through the movement of the age.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 9 This transformation took place last night.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 10 This is the will of that mysterious creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 11 Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER 12 He was now, as we have said, three-and-thirty years of age, and his fourteen years' imprisonment had produced a great transformation in his appearance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 13 As to Franz a strange transformation had taken place in him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 14 Five minutes had sufficed to make a complete transformation in his appearance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 85. The Journey. 15 We have seen how quietly Mademoiselle Danglars and Mademoiselle d'Armilly accomplished their transformation and flight; the fact being that every one was too much occupied in his or her own affairs to think of theirs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 99. The Law.