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1  An amour for him; passion for her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
2  But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
3  A pure passion for seeing, knowing, and penetrating into things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ...
4  They talked of one thing and another, without passion and with noise.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
5  He flew into a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
6  All the passion and affection within him awoke, and rushed towards that child.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
7  Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night over his eyes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
8  Some went thither through enthusiasm and passion; others because it was on their way to their work.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
9  Nevertheless, in spite of all this, and because of all this, his passion augmented and grew to madness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY
10  Passion had supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimaeras without object or bottom.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
11  Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and passion which had prevented his bestowing a glance on his neighbors up to that day.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
12  Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity of passion which existed in her.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
13  And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with all her soul, with an innocent filial passion which made the goodman a beloved and charming companion to her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
14  Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING
15  The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Mother Presentation, Mother Passion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
16  Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called passion.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ...
17  You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured by passion.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER
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