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  • This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a fontis, in the special tongue.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a fontis, in the special tongue.

    Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

  • This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a fontis, in the special tongue.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Inter illos primitivos/Veros veri fontis rivos/Iohannes exsiliit

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • The fontis which Jean Valjean had encountered was caused by the downpour of the preceding day.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to have left his strength behind him there.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers who were buried in fontis in this manner.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • In the Luniere fontis, it would have taken a man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five minutes by the

    Les Miserables 2008

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