millepeds

Her childhood produced upon her the effect of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, and serpents.

Les Miserables 2008

Each man had his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds.

Les Miserables 2008

There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the

Les Miserables 2008

Some fragments of an aqueduct were still to be seen at intervals on the right hand, where they looked like portions of gigantic millepeds severed by the scythe of time; next, on the left, came another tower, whose dark and ruined pile barred the sky as with a huge black stake; and then the remains of another aqueduct spanned the road, assuming yet greater dimensions against the sunset glow.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

Some fragments of an aqueduct were still to be seen at intervals on the right hand, where they looked like portions of gigantic millepeds severed by the scythe of time; next, on the left, came another tower, whose dark and ruined pile barred the sky as with a huge black stake; and then the remains of another aqueduct spanned the road, assuming yet greater dimensions against the sunset glow.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

Each man had his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds.

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars.

Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius 1862

Her childhood produced upon her the effect of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, and serpents.

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

However, since the catastrophe two successive springtides had softened the ground, and in a corner of the trapezium, behind an enormous stone that was becoming tinted with the green of moss, and beneath which were haunts of woodlice, millepeds, and other insects, a little patch of grass had grown in the shadow.

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Victor Hugo 1843

Her childhood produced upon her the effect of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, and serpents.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843