paving-stones

I want to get my foot off the paving-stones and my ear away from the telephone.

Chapter XXII 2010

The otter stared at him, both arms now full of gleaming paving-stones.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving-stones.

Les Miserables 2008

Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, made the passengers alight, offered his hand to “the ladies,” dismissed the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the bridle.

Les Miserables 2008

The frame of paving-stones which supported it had been torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened.

Les Miserables 2008

Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, been lying flat on their stomachs behind the line of paving-stones which they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of reorganization, they had opened fire on the barricade.

Les Miserables 2008

Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist which filled the entrenched enclosure, to glide along the barricade as far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed.

Les Miserables 2008

A series of faint, sharp noises resounded confusedly along the wall of paving-stones.

Les Miserables 2008

Handling iron when there is ice between the paving-stones is hard work.

Les Miserables 2008

A few paces distant he perceived, at the base of the small barrier so pitilessly guarded and watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones which partly concealed it, an iron grating, placed flat and on a level with the soil.

Les Miserables 2008