1 He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 2 Jean Valjean accepted the sou with a deep bow.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT 3 He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ... 4 He soon reached his last sou, never his last burst of laughter.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 5 He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 6 "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing him a sou.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ... 7 It sometimes happened that kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT 8 The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty.
9 No one knows all that certain feeble creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of a sou.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 10 That costs them a sou, and their good sense, and their intelligence, and their heart and their soul, and their wits.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE 11 He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; he pays to Lagny, and he goes only as far as Chelles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ... 12 After the delivery of that sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old beggar-women at the door of the cathedral.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 13 When he paid at the desk where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a smile.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 14 This sou piece was one of those marvels of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than instruments of escape.
15 The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the police made their descent on it.
16 There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had stolen it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 17 The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou in such a manner that the plates will adhere again.
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