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1  It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  The sister, accustomed as she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
3  He was stoical, serious, austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
4  Thanks to these children, there was, among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
5  A useful and graciously austere half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
6  The historian of manners and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
7  The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the practices of the convent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
8  Their names, also, had vanished from among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
9  Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, raised his beautiful, austere face.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE
10  This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
11  Mabeuf, in his venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
12  We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an austere interlude in a mournful drama.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
13  When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
14  This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal classes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
15  A whole new world was dawning on his soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, running in inverse sense to justice according to men.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
16  Although she would have refused nothing to Tholomyes, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there was nothing more singular and disturbing than to see gayety become so suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without any transition state.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR