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Maheude was furious, and, after forbidding her daughter ever to see such a brute again, talked of going to Montsou to box his ears.
Maheu persisted with such energy that he refused, with a furious gesture, when another man approached to relieve him for a moment.
But Maheude grew more furious, while Alzire, Lénore, and Henri were crying around her.
Very well! the middle class to-day are playing the same silly game with their furious Liberalism, their rage for destruction, their flattery of the people.
With a furious movement Chaval chased Catherine towards the door.
The Maheus were furious.
The women were furious.
But Chaval was furious when he saw Catherine in her trousers and jacket, her head tied up in the blue cap.
It was a furious gallop through the gloomy passages.
Along the galleries there was only a furious rush, helter-skelter; a race of madmen, each striving to arrive first and mount before the others.
The worst was that those below were now pushing, and that the entire column was stampeding, yielding to the growing anger of its fatigue, the furious need to see the sun again.
In less than five minutes the whole pit belonged to them; they swarmed at every storey in the midst of furious gestures and cries, carried away by their victory over this master who resisted.
An enormous putter-woman, who rolled out with her breast to her belly and her belly to her backside, raised a furious laugh.
It was four o'clock; the sun which approached the horizon, lengthened the shadows of this horde with their furious gestures over the frozen soil.
Maheu had pushed him, and Maheude was among those who grew furious, both of them satisfying their old spite; even Mouquette, who generally remained such good friends with her old lovers, was wild with this one, treating him as a good-for-nothing, and talking of taking his breeches down to see if he was still a man.
All his rage of the afternoon, that furious battle in the depths of his silent solitude, had now turned to an immense fatigue.
Just then, Rose, the housemaid, was returning, laughing at the furious workmen, all of whom she knew, for she belonged to Montsou.
But the women were furious, and Cécile had fallen from Bonnemort's fingers into Mother Brulé's hands.
They spat on it, they thrust out their jaws, saying over and over again, with furious bursts of contempt:"He can do no more! he can do no more!
Never had he reflected so much; he asked himself the why of his disgust on the morrow of that furious course among the pits; and he did not dare to reply to himself, his recollections were repulsive to him, the ignoble desires, the coarse instincts, the odour of all that wretchedness shaken out to the wind.
For two days he had struggled against the directors at Montsou, furious at the quiet way with which they took advantage of his embarrassment and shouting his refusals at them in his loud voice.
"By God!" exclaimed Maheu, furious at being dragged out of his dejection, "what is all this clatter again?
He was the taller of the two, and his blows swung about aiming at the face, with furious cutting movements of both arms one after the other, as though he were handling a couple of sabres.
He became furious on feeling his arm grow limp with pain, and kicked out like a wild beast, aiming at his adversary's belly with his heel.
"Off you go, or I'll do for you!"Chaval arose, and with the back of his hand wiped away the blood which continued to flow from his nose; with jaw smeared red and bruised eye, he went away trailing his feet, furious at his defeat.
That brigand of a child was certainly preparing some practical joke, for he was still furious against the soldiers, and asking when they were going to be freed from these murderers who had been sent here with guns to kill people.
With a furious, unreasoning blow of the fist he knocked the child down beside the body.
And how were they to prevent these furious people from impaling themselves?
And her long silence broke out into a furious flood of words.
He appeared to be in a very bad humour, and was furious with the captain; nothing had gone well, what was the meaning of such work, the planking would everywhere have to be done over again!
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