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1  Then he spoke of something else.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
2  As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  He spoke; but he was too far off, and we did not hear.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
4  When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her adherence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
5  After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, and spoke to her in a low voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
6  After proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived that my brother was no longer with me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
7  As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
8  He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
9  No army, no nation, was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the Germans, then spoke French and followed the English.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
10  In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
11  She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, her neck bare, wringing her hands, and coughing with a dry, short cough, stammering softly with a voice of agony.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
12  As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
13  Near this barricade he observed the old chapel of Saint Nicholas, painted white, which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE ...
14  This cross and pious old mother never spoke to Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, where she spoke ill of her daughter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
15  A person who had seen her a quarter of an hour previously would not have understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, she laughed softly; the joy of a mother is almost infantile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
16  She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something alarming at the other extremity of the room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY
17  The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak of Fecamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
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