1 At six francs the shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred millions a year, which vanish in smoke.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 2 This gesture, and an inspection of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thenardier passed in review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the gruff mien to reappear.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 3 The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 4 In ordinary times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell out the date.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 5 Thenardier was panting on his wall like the shipwrecked sufferers of the Meduse on their raft when they beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 6 Gratitude, duty, matters essential and important to be remembered, vanish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW 7 Now, the law of progress is, that monsters shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before Fraternity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C... 8 The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO... 9 In the obliteration of things which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes all.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 10 She would vanish for hours on end, and then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over, as though nothing had happened.
11 Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 12 Any instant he might dash out the light and vanish in the darkness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 13 It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear.
14 As I stood agape, I saw a little red spark go drifting across a gap of starlight between the branches, and vanish.
15 For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever.