1 The best men are often obliged to delegate their authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 2 This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES 3 It was a striking circumstance that no question was put, that no authority intervened.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 4 That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 5 Madeleine did not allow the district-attorney to finish; he interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED 6 Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 7 It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 8 In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always questionable.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 9 In his eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 10 I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 11 Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS 12 He raised his head with an expression of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild beast, atrocious in the man of no estate.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 13 wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, in questions touching the dead, the authority of the exarch and the supremacy of the Emperor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 14 At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 15 Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of Paris; flames in the light or will-o'-the-wisps in the gloom.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO 16 Behind him and around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 17 A few paces more, and you arrive at the abominable pollarded elms of the Barriere Saint-Jacques, that expedient of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and shameful Place de Grove of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.