1 With their Andalusian horses they penetrated into an unknown country, where they perceived no beaten track.
2 They did not know whether they were cries of pain or joy; but they started up precipitately with that inquietude and alarm which every little thing inspires in an unknown country.
3 While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 4 It set free all the unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the earth.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 5 Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 6 There is something of the unknown about them.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 7 Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE 8 He created at his own expense an infant school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old and infirm workmen.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE 9 The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent on that unknown man.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE 10 There was an unknown quantity about Thenardier; hence the absolute empire of the man over that woman.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 11 This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thenardier hated worse than any one in the world at that moment.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 12 A new city has arisen, which is, after a fashion, unknown to him.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 13 That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 14 In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, of which they must never speak.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES 15 de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of attention to the school-girls.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS