Les Misérables vocabulary

Françoise found it too cold to stand about, so we walked to the Pont de la Concorde to see the Seine frozen over, on to which everyone, even children, walked fearlessly, as though upon an enormous whale, stranded, defenceless, and about to be cut up.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way 

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Jefferson's preference for natural light and fresh air led him to applaud the transformation of the city's oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf. Inaugurated in 1607, the bridge had grown crowded with tiny shops and houses perched along its edges, reducing the passage across the Seine to a dark, constricted alley.

Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée, p.55 (2012)