This highest point Jean Valjean had reached, and he was proceeding toward the engirdling sewer, or in the right direction, but he knew it not.
Between these four ways a less sagacious man would have been undecided; but Jean Valjean selected the widest, that is to say, the engirdling sewer.
The police, on coming out of the Cadran gallery, fancied that they could hear the sound of footsteps in the direction of the engirdling sewer, and they were really Jean Valjean's footsteps.
It was an idyllic spot, and I have often regretted that I did not spend a week in rambling over it and making excursions to the engirdling ridges and peaks.
That critical period over, in August and September large flocks of them, including young and old, ascend to favorite feeding haunts far above the timber-line, ranging over the slopes of the snowy mountains engirdling their summer home.
The caravans of spring are in the town, Lighting their brilliant torches in the park, Dangling their bells, engirdling each stark Black tree with coloured rings.
The more remote of these tents fell into an orderly arrangement of semi-circular form, facing that part of theengirdling woods where the trees were largest, and their canopy of overhanging foliage was lifted highest from the ground.
There was a halo about it, engirdling rich, flowing waves of reddish hair, the lights in which glowed like flame.
Richard held them in his calm, engirdling gaze with never sign of heat or pity, and to each spoke in tones high and sharp-cut enough for all to hear, but of a level in cold dignity.
To such a people, the memories of Punic exploration or Phœnician enterprise, or the vague legends of an Atlantis beyond the engirdling ocean, were equally unavailing.
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