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Up above, at the window, Madame Maigrat still stood motionless; but beneath the last gleams of the setting sun, the confused flaws of the window-panes distorted her white face which looked as though it were laughing.
But the women were already coming back, turning round and passing beneath the manager's windows.
The plain was drowned beneath the thick night, only the blast furnaces and the coke furnaces were burning against the tragic sky.
He now passed by the roadside nothing but closed dead workshops, becoming rotten beneath the dull sky.
The desert moorland of Plogof, that wild storm-beaten point of the Raz, appeared to him beneath a dazzling sun in the rosy season of heather.
In spite of the growing daylight, nothing stirred in the settlements; the colliers remained in silent rage beneath the military boot.
The Deux-Cent-Quarante settlement lay beneath the snow as though it had disappeared.
At once Levaque became threatening, and thrust his fist beneath Maheu's nose.
In defence, he pretended that Maheu had slipped beneath his door a threatening paper with two cross-bones and a dagger above.
The road was becoming deserted, not a shadow spotted the naked whiteness of the snow, and the settlement, falling back into its death-like immobility, went on starving beneath the intense cold.
Unwound from her coverlet, she shivered beneath this flickering light, as lean as a bird dying in the snow, so small that one only saw her hump.
you see my hands; if my hands were able they would take up the earth, like that, and shake it until it was smashed to fragments, and you were all buried beneath the rubbish."
Then he became very pale, and his face contracted with nausea; while, in spite of his stoicism, two large tears were swelling beneath his eyelids.
He held Chaval down beneath his knee and threatened to slit his throat open.
Beneath the limpid light the red trousers and grey overcoat contrasted harshly with the snow.
But nothing stirred, and he bent down, felt the hands that were gradually becoming icy, and listened to the heart, which had stopped beneath the overcoat.
Where was it, that Plogof which had appeared to him beneath the dazzling sun?
At last the roof became low, and they found themselves kneeling beneath a sandy rock supported by half-broken planks.
Only one at last remained, torturing him and fatiguing him with a question to which he could not reply: Why had he not struck Chaval when he held him beneath the knife?
The image of the little soldier, lying over there with his gun beneath the rocks, froze his back and made his hair stand up.
go elsewhere, to die of hunger, to yield beneath the blows of every man who might pass?
Catherine had just recognized the back of Chaval, who was cautiously going round the pit-bank, when she noticed Lydie and Bébert putting their noses out of their hiding-place beneath the wood supply.
And over there, beneath the growing daylight, a band of men and women were coming from the settlement, gesticulating wildly with anger.
Maheude, who had arrived first with dishevelled hair beneath a handkerchief knotted on in haste, and having Estelle asleep in her arms, repeated in feverish tones:"Don't let any one in or any one out!
In vain Bataille, the doyen of the mine, would rub him with his ribs in his friendly way, softly biting his neck to impart to him a little of the resignation gained in his ten years beneath the earth.
These caresses increased his melancholy, his skin quivered beneath the confidences of the comrade who had grown old in darkness; and both of them, whenever they met and snorted together, seemed to be grieving, the old one that he could no longer remember, the young one that he could not forget.
At the pit-eye, when he was unharnessed, he followed with his melancholy eye the preparations for the ascent--the body pushed on to the cross-bars over the sump, the net fastened beneath a cage.
" These men, who had listened quietly, with motionless mute faces, to the fraternal appeals and the friendly attempts to win them over, preserved the same stiff passivity beneath this hail of abuse.
Beneath this shower of stones the little troop was disappearing.
A stone having bounded back and struck the old soldier with the stripes beneath the belly, his cheeks turned green, and his weapon trembled as he stretched it out at the end of his lean arms.
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