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bread!"Lucie and Jeanne pressed themselves against Madame Hennebeau, who was almost fainting; while Négrel placed himself before them as though to protect them by his body.
Who was the fool who placed earthly happiness in the partition of wealth?
Beneath there was a shed, so placed that from the villa garden one could climb it from the palings; then it was easy to get on to the tiles up to the window.
On the pit-bank of the Voreux a sentinel was always placed in the frozen wind that blew up there, like a look-out man above the flat plain; and every two hours, as though in an enemy's country, were heard the sentry's cries:"Qui vive?
Vague ideas were working within him for the first time: a feeling of superiority, which placed him apart from his mates, an exaltation of his person as he grew more instructed.
She crossed the ends of the coverlet over the little one's quivering body, and placed herself before the window, looking out vaguely.
Now, in veiled phrases, he hit at the town curés, at the bishops, at the highly placed clergy, sated with enjoyment, gorged with domination, making pacts with the liberal middle class, in the imbecility of their blindness, not seeing that it was this middle class which had dispossessed them of the empire of the world.
He simply placed himself before the fireplace, for fear lest they should tumble over into it.
In spite of the man whom she had had, this lessened her, placed her among the urchins.
It was a sort of long chest in which they laid the little soldier as in a coffin; they placed his gun by his side; then with vigorous blows of their heels they broke the timber at the risk of being buried themselves.
They obeyed, and a double row of steel points was placed in front of the strikers' breasts.
As soon as the first bricks were thrown, Captain Richomme had again placed himself between the soldiers and the miners.
And while Lénore and Henri, to beguile their hunger, were scraping, with deafening noise, an old saucepan in which cabbages had been boiled the day before, Maheude, after having placed Estelle on the table, was standing up threatening Catherine with her fist.
The engineer, having gone down with ten workmen, made them strike the iron of their tools against certain parts of the seam which he pointed out to them; and in deep silence they each placed an ear to the coal, listening for any distant blows to reply.
And when these awful remains were placed on a stretcher, Maheude followed them mechanically, her burning eyelids without a tear.
Two parcels, carefully wrapped up, had been placed beneath a seat of the carriage.
At his feet lay his plate, garnished with ashes, such as is placed for cats for ordure.
After having placed on the table a pot-au-feu and two bottles of wine, she undid the second parcel and drew from it a pair of enormous boots.
Then Cécile furtively placed the boots against the wall.
It was he; she saw the man again; she looked at his hands placed on his knees, the hands of an invalid workman whose whole strength is in his wrists, still firm in spite of age.
Then he placed his ear to listen.
Afterwards, he placed on a piece of timber the two slices of bread-and-butter which were still left.
And she placed her ear to the coal.
Several corpses had already been brought up, and placed in a row on the ground: Chaval, who was thought to have been crushed beneath a landslip.
As for the family in which it would be placed (baleen whale, sperm whale, or dolphin), the genus to which it belonged, and the species in which it would find its proper home, these questions had to be left for later.
The order Cetacea consists of three families, baleen whales, sperm whales, dolphins, and it's in this last group that narwhales are placed.
I now know that sheer chance has placed in my presence Professor Pierre Aronnax, specialist in natural history at the Paris Museum and entrusted with a scientific mission abroad, his manservant Conseil, and Ned Land, a harpooner of Canadian origin aboard the Abraham Lincoln, a frigate in the national navy of the United States of America."
Not only had he placed himself beyond human laws, he had rendered himself independent, out of all reach, free in the strictest sense of the word!
It's placed in contact with the water, and it indicates the outside pressure on our hull, which in turn gives me the depth at which my submersible is sitting."
"Captain, I fully understand the excellence of sodium under the conditions in which you're placed.
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