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- The reflection of the dazzling vision, the reverberation of the enchanting music disappeared by degrees from my eyes and my ears.2.8.4 — Vol 2 Bk 8 Chpt 4 — Lasciate Ogni Speranza.... (59% in)
- A very sweet reflection to poor fellows habituated to respect and obedience towards the underlings of the sergeants of the bailiff of Sainte-Geneviève, the cardinal's train-bearer.1.1.4 — Vol 1 Bk 1 Chpt 4 — Master Jacques Coppenole (14% in)
- But, disenchanted though Gringoire was, the whole effect of this picture was not without its charm and its magic; the bonfire illuminated, with a red flaring light, which trembled, all alive, over the circle of faces in the crowd, on the brow of the young girl, and at the background of the Place cast a pallid reflection, on one side upon the ancient, black, and wrinkled facade of the House of Pillars, on the other, upon the old stone gibbet.1.2.3 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 3 — Kisses for Blows (19% in)
- This exclamation afforded him a little solace, and a sort of reddish reflection which he caught sight of at that moment, at the extremity of a long and narrow lane, completed the elevation of his moral tone.1.2.6 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 6 — The Broken Jug (6% in)
- She gazed fixedly at him again, and said, after a momentary reflection, "Perhaps."1.2.7 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 7 — A Bridal Night (46% in)
- This hydra of towers, giant guardian of Paris, with its four and twenty heads, always erect, with its monstrous haunches, loaded or scaled with slates, and all streaming with metallic reflections, terminated with wonderful effect the configuration of the Town towards the west.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (69% in)
- The reflection which resulted from this refraction was, necessarily, divergent and perverted.1.4.3 — Vol 1 Bk 4 Chpt 3 — Immanis Pecoris Custos, Immanior Ipse (38% in)
- After a few moments of reflection, he motioned his visitors to be seated, and, turning to Gossip Tourangeau he said,— "You come to consult me, master, and upon what science?"1.5.1 — Vol 1 Bk 5 Chpt 1 — Abbas Beati Martini (35% in)
- I have not crawled so long, flat on my belly, with my nails in the earth, through the innumerable ramifications of its caverns, without perceiving far in front of me, at the end of the obscure gallery, a light, a flame, a something, the reflection, no doubt, of the dazzling central laboratory where the patient and the wise have found out God.1.5.1 — Vol 1 Bk 5 Chpt 1 — Abbas Beati Martini (54% in)
- And all the reflections which that strange spectacle would awaken in us to-day; that horrible cell, a sort of intermediary link between a house and the tomb, the cemetery and the city; that living being cut off from the human community, and thenceforth reckoned among the dead; that lamp consuming its last drop of oil in the darkness; that remnant of life flickering in the grave; that breath, that voice, that eternal prayer in a box of stone; that face forever turned towards the other...1.6.2 — Vol 1 Bk 6 Chpt 2 — The Rat-Hole (53% in)
- Its rays, growing more and more horizontal, withdraw slowly from the pavement of the square, and mount up the perpendicular facade, whose thousand bosses in high relief they cause to start out from the shadows, while the great central rose window flames like the eye of a cyclops, inflamed with the reflections of the forge.2.7.1 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 1 — The Danger of Confiding One's.... (3% in)
- Only the great rose window of the facade, whose thousand colors were steeped in a ray of horizontal sunlight, glittered in the gloom like a mass of diamonds, and threw its dazzling reflection to the other end of the nave.2.7.2 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 2 — A Priest and a Philosopher are.... (33% in)
- This reflection having brought him to a decision, he plunged resolutely into the small black doorway, and began the ascent of the spiral of Saint-Gilles, which leads to the upper stories of the tower.2.7.4 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 4 — ANARKH (12% in)
- A large figure of Christ might be vaguely descried above the judges, and everywhere there were pikes and halberds, upon whose points the reflection of the candles placed tips of fire.2.8.1 — Vol 2 Bk 8 Chpt 1 — The Crown Changed into a Dry Leaf (21% in)
- Nevertheless, light was not lacking; a furnace had been constructed in the thickness of the wall; a large fire was lighted there, which filled the vault with its crimson reflections and deprived a miserable candle, which stood in one corner, of all radiance.2.8.2 — Vol 2 Bk 8 Chpt 2 — Continuation of the Crown.... (9% in)
- This cellar was so damp that the fire was never allowed to go out, even in midsummer; an immense chimney with a sculptured mantel, all bristling with heavy iron andirons and cooking utensils, with one of those huge fires of mixed wood and peat which at night, in village streets make the reflection of forge windows stand out so red on the opposite walls.2.10.3 — Vol 2 Bk 10 Chpt 3 — Long Live Mirth (19% in)
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