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1  Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of violets.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
2  The walks are sanded with river sand; there are tiny violet shells.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
3  The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, and black for gold jewellery.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE ...
4  Crows fly through their branches, and at the end of it is a wood full of violets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
5  Buckles are made with a violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little framework of black iron.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE ...
6  Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
7  The dreams of your bourgeois who set up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, ebony and calico.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
8  She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was framed in a bonnet of violet velvet, her figure was concealed beneath a pelisse of black satin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
9  This man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on his feet, no shirt, had his neck bare, his bare arms tattooed, and his face smeared with black.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS
10  In the centre, above the white and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the candles; around the chandelier, girandoles, on the walls, sconces with triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, porcelain, faience, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was sparkling and gay.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING