1 However, this trip seemed to attain its object.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 2 Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 3 The effect which they had foreseen had been attained.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND ... 4 But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 5 It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing condition.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 6 But without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very precious.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 7 Every career has its aspirants, who form a train for those who have attained eminence in it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 8 Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong flight of all the forces of the conscience.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 9 The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness of a point of steel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 10 He attained the opposite end, then came back, and this time he approached a little nearer to the bench.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY 11 If it had been granted to these two young men to attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise man.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 12 When Gavroche had once more attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ... 13 If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, let him look at Machiavelli.
14 There are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his trousers sewed up again.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING ... 15 That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Aeschylus, Dante, Michael Angelo, or Napoleon, the multitude awards on the spot, and by acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may consist.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 16 They had now attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 17 It attained its maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two hundred and thirty-eight metres in length.
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