1 You know that one is not master of one's self at the first moment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 2 All this took place in less time than it requires to picture it to one's self.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 An admirable sentiment breaks forth in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 4 It was easy to tear off a plank; but then, one found one's self face to face with a wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT 5 One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom were over sixty years of age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 6 One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one's self.
7 Jean Valjean understood thoroughly the expiation of the former; that personal expiation, the expiation for one's self.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 8 If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? 9 He experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ... 10 In winter one gets so cold that one beats one's arms together to warm one's self; but the masters don't like it; they say it wastes time.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 11 It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 12 One no longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own mind.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 13 The Emperor had been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for whom one sacrifices one's self; he was something more to Marius.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN 14 If one opened it, one found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green flowers, at fifteen sous the roll.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 15 In all things the word finis must be written in good season; self-control must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry one's self to the post.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 16 To make one's coulpe means to prostrate one's self flat on one's face during the office in front of the prioress until the latter, who is never called anything but our mother, notifies the culprit by a slight tap of her foot against the wood of her stall that she can rise.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 17 To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; that is the example which nations need, that is the light which electrifies them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.