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1  I have just committed a wrong, sir.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  I assure you that I was not in the wrong.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
3  It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF ...
5  He had understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
6  He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the exconvict.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
7  An unmethodical effort, aid awkwardly given, a wrong shake, might kill him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
8  It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
9  Voltaire made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that God is useless.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
10  They augment the grievances in such cases, although, in reality, the wrongs are not increased by them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
11  Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with representations and ceremonies.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
12  He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
13  Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these conditions, but he submitted to them, thinking that he was doing right and sacrificing no one but himself.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
14  He was wrong in not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de Pontoise.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
15  On soil where an imprint of the track may be left, this manoeuvre possesses, among other advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing them on the wrong scent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
16  Above all, he was wrong in that after he had picked up the scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
17  They are reproached with raising, erecting, and heaping up, against the reigning social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in order therein to embattle themselves and to combat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
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