1 Let us tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is vegetation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 2 It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut stone, with balustrade with a double curve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 3 A large tree, covered with those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces distant from the pile of stones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE... 4 Contrary to what happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls upon it kills whatever it touches.
5 But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock in the virgin forest.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 6 The wanton and vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees to trembling.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT 7 This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, being very rare in vegetation.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 8 She had not known before how much the beginnings and progress of vegetation had delighted her.
9 The heaven being spread with this pallid screen and the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 10 Civilization was its enemy; and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 11 It was a stagnant, warm, and misty night, full of all the heavy perfumes of new vegetation not yet dried by hot sun, and among these particularly the scent of the fern.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 12 Amid the soft juicy vegetation of the hollow in which they sat, the motionless and the uninhabited solitude, intruded the chink of guineas, the rattle of dice, the exclamations of the reckless players.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current 13 Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this rarely results in flame.
14 Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.
15 Here the first vegetation peeped forth; here Kay and Gerda took leave of the Lapland woman.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN