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arras
1. But just as through the parted arras came young Henry, Prince of Wales,
2. accuser for the regions of Arras and Cambrai during the Reign of
3. Publio felt a movement in the arras behind him, and almost burst from fright
4. And Aad, and Thamood, and the inhabitants of Arras, and many generations in between
5. Be you and I behind an arras then;
6. Behind the arras I'll convey myself,
7. POLONIUS hides behind the arras
8. Behind the arras hearing something stir,
9. Or perhaps I shall be told, too, that there was no such knight-errant as the valiant Lusitanian Juan de Merlo, who went to Burgundy and in the city of Arras fought with the famous lord of Charny, Mosen Pierres by name, and afterwards in the city of Basle with Mosen Enrique de Remesten, coming out of both encounters covered with fame and honour; or adventures and challenges achieved and delivered, also in Burgundy, by the valiant Spaniards Pedro Barba and Gutierre Quixada (of whose family I come in the direct male line), when they vanquished the sons of the Count of San Polo
10. She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras
11. "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental prison is situated
12. In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed turnkey of the house, because of good behavior
13. I was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, in the power of the authorities
14. The case has been taken to the Assizes at Arras
15. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?"
16. He had a vague feeling that he might be obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, beyond the shadow of any suspicion, there could be nothing out of the way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event
17. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean Valjean, and denounce the real one
18. The posting service from Arras to M
19. The post-wagon which set out from Arras at one o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M
20. "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it
21. An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras
22. "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender
23. "How far is it from here to Arras?"
24. "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach Arras to-morrow
25. "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early to-morrow morning
26. one knew what road he had taken; that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris
27. It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we left on the road, entered the porte-cochere of the Hotel de la Poste in Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was not sorry
28. He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the passers-by
29. Arras and Douai envied the happy little town of M
30. The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally honored
31. He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there
32. Madeleine quitted the Hall of Assizes in Arras
33. The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in two words, informed Javert of what had taken place at Arras
34. A tempest, more furious than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within him
35. The canon of the eparchy of Arras informed his Worship, the chief priest of the Russian court clergy, that he could affirm that deep in the hearts of all the French cardinals and archbishops there was imprinted a love for Russia and his Majesty Alexander III
36. I was rather badly wounded near Bullecourt, on the Arras front, and was lying on a stretcher outside the dressing station
37. It was our fifth day in the front line in a sector of the Arras front
38. In the second battle of Arras, 1917, our regiment was held up near Gavrelle and was occupying a line of shell-holes
39. What resistance do they afford against their decrees or confiscation? Have they taken a single man out of a ship of war, or one man out of the dungeons of Paris or Arras? This is as plain a question of expediency as whether you will alter the time of holding the courts of the State of Maryland or any other question