GALLERY in Classic Quotes

1  This conversation took place in the gallery dining-room on the ground-floor.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME

2  What used to be called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is now called a surveying orifice.

Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—PRESENT PROGRESS

3  Of all these writers, the one who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was Restif de La Bretonne.

Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS

4  When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, and he became blind again.

Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES

5  She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS

6  Had Jean Valjean had any idea of all that we have here pointed out, he would speedily have perceived, merely by feeling the wall, that he was not in the subterranean gallery of the Rue Saint-Denis.

Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES