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  • Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavee; everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by Thenardier still remains rather inexplicable.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • In the midst of this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavee, halt in the recess above which Thenardier was, as it were, suspended.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • There was nothing said or heard about the matter in the Rue Pavee St. Andree, that reached even the occupants of the same building.

    The Mystery of Marie Roget 2006

  • They felt the need of the cool night air, so instead of going down the rue Pavee they resolved to follow the rue

    Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • I wonder, have the Rom, Pavee, etc. people changed their lifestyles much in recent years?

    Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines 2009

  • When he was in the Rue Pavee, the rag-picker occurred to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy: — “You’re in the wrong to insult the revolutionists, Mother

    Les Miserables 2008

  • But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavee; everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by Thenardier still remains rather inexplicable.

    Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

  • But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavee; everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl, thanks to BBC2.

    planet.journals.ie 2008

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