1 If there is a volcano at Lisbon it cannot be elsewhere.
2 Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended with lightning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 3 Its laugh is the mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN 4 The globe does not perish, because it has these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor because of a volcano which ejects its pus.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 5 There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 6 An observer, a dreamer, the author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, found himself in the passage between the two fires.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 7 They knew they were sitting on a volcano, but until that volcano erupted there was nothing they could do.
8 With the world a possible volcano, the husbandmen were plowing at the base of the mountain.
9 He folded his arms, tightly pressed in his lips, but a whole volcano of bitter feelings burned in his bosom, and sent streams of fire through his veins.
10 "Wal, it seems quite as plain a text, stranger," said John the drover, "to poor fellows like us, now;" and John smoked on like a volcano.
11 But immediately through this opening twenty more shots were fired, and the flame, rushing up like fire from the crater of a volcano, soon reached the tapestry, which it quickly devoured.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 12 The fire crackled, and the smoke ascended like the dull vapor from a volcano; but still no prisoner fell down, as they expected.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. 13 An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY 14 We cannot live forever on such a volcano.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 15 "Yes, a regular volcano," said the count.