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1  He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
2  She passed many a night weeping and thinking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
3  He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
4  The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE ...
5  He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
6  These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
7  Thinking to purge the city, the population is blanched like plants raised in cellars.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
8  He could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial in his manner.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
9  But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told me where he is going.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
10  He seated himself in front of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other things.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
11  These were the moments when she was thinking of her child; perhaps, also, of the man whom she had loved.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ...
12  He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the question.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
13  Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have been filled and that there was no more water in the cistern.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE ...
14  Less than an hour after this, the verdict of the jury freed the said Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
15  An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ...
16  He was thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his ordinary way.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...
17  The wall is hidden on the outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's brigade was broken against it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
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