1 The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the vehicle rested on his breast.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 2 It was impossible to disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 3 Then, without saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 4 The wheels had continued to sink, and it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under the vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 5 By the light which they cast he was able to distinguish the form of this vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP 6 The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 7 The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a hired vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 8 All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES 9 The horses were harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE... 10 He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE... 11 Not a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 12 A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 13 Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and apparently in indecision.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 14 It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could not be distinctly made out.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 15 In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG