1 It is impossible to ascend that rapid river on which you came as by a miracle, and which runs under vaulted rocks.
2 It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine prison postern.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C... 3 Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor could be descried.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 4 It appeared to her that the sounds spread to a distance beneath the vaulted roofs, and carried with them a magic charm to soften the hearts of her jailers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY 5 With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky.
6 But thou art mistaken, good Bend-the-Bow, concerning that same vaulted apartment.
7 "And of the vaulted chamber," whispered Locksley.
8 Here and there on the walls of the staircase, were reflected gigantic shadows, which trembled in the flickering light of the pine-torches till they seemed to reach to the vaulted roof above.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 9 While he was thus in two minds Helen came down from her high vaulted and perfumed room, looking as lovely as Diana herself.
10 And the full chorus of the unseen choir rose up, filling the whole church, from the windows to the vaulted roof, with broad waves of melody.
11 Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 12 The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar for the burial of their community.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 13 The Government, as they say, does not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when they die.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 14 We will open the vault, we will lower the coffin, and we will close the vault again.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 15 That the nun who had died that morning had requested to be buried in the coffin which had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of the chapel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...