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1  Hero refuses to wash the body of Leander.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
2  Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in the city.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
3  while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
4  The wall, which was daubed with an ochre yellow wash, was scaling off in large flakes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
5  When the wind cuts your face, when it freezes, it is all the same; you must still wash.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
6  You are not in the tub there; you wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
7  There are people who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you lose your custom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
8  The chambers were paved in red bricks, which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
9  Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
10  His eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
11  His clothing cost him a hundred francs, his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not exceed six hundred and fifty francs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
12  Cosette ran up stairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, did the coarse work.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
13  The reader knows, that by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
14  In a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the sheet of air; that is to say, to wash the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
15  However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
16  At regular distances, on the bare tables, there were large, varnished bowls in which the pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was punished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
17  When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
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