1 Certain convicts who were forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force and skill combined.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 2 Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 3 One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his mind.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 4 But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable alluvial deposit.
5 When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof from swagger and from affected airs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES... 6 The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS 7 There existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrede.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 8 This is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is Progress.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 9 This fragment of the vaulting, partly submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this plane, he was safe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 10 This recital was for him the occasion of veritable triumph.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 11 Across the thick ice was a veritable road, a short-cut for farmers.
12 In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations.
13 He exaggerated every detail, making it appear a veritable Lucullean feast.
14 The thistle is the order for dignity and antiquity; the veritable 'nemo me impune lacessit' of chivalry.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 16 15 Also, were you to sketch him, you would be sketching a veritable Prometheus, for his glance is as that of an eagle, and he walks with measured, stately stride.