They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's den.
A barricade before the arrival of danger is chaos; in danger, it is discipline itself. peril produces order.
One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress.
The voice which had summoned Marius through the twilight to the barricade of the Rue DE la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect of the voice of destiny.
The barricade has two saviors, Marius Pontmercy and yourself.
They could barricade parliament again, as they did last month, and generate a fresh stalemate.
The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder. — "How that is built!" he said to a Representative.
The fifty men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there.
The little barricade of the Mondetour lane can be scaled.
The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, and seven hundred feet wide.
Observers pressed up against a police barricade drew the ire of one man who emerged from the building and shouted: "Are you enjoying watching this?
So you have brought him thither from the barricade?
At the moment when they were least expecting it, the captain launched his men against the barricade.
The barricade was underneath it.
Chinese from every province pour in by the truckload to marvel at the colossal barricade, here only 35 miles from the capital.
Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault.
But Marius thought of the little barricade, and went thither.
Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the young revolution after the apparition of the old.
To the barricade?
Now, in broad daylight, in that widening street, surprise was decidedly impossible, rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, the army hurled itself on the barricade.
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