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1  I shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
2  The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
3  The proof of it is, that on emerging from the sewer, he was arrested.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
4  The sage is the man who knows how, at a given moment, to effect his own arrest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
5  The woman had been arrested in the act of passing the first false piece made by the man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
6  As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
7  He has at last been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the public prosecutor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
8  , and in which Pache forwarded to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
9  A child fourteen years of age was arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of cartridges.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS
10  It is about a sort of blackguard; a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ...
11  His brain had lost its power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his brow in both hands to arrest them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
12  He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
13  Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were arrested.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
14  By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the Conciergerie, so was La Force.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
15  This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the spectator's attention.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
16  This woman in turn transmitted the note to another woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected by the police, though not yet arrested.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE ...
17  From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless rag which, arrested there in its passage, no doubt, had floated there in the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
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