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1  Bonaparte, at his dawning, had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
2  Marius had beaten the whole country; he had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
3  By the beaten paths, which indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an hour.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS ...
4  The poor child, who was used to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in confusion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
5  They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long sabre-swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
6  Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from their barracks.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
7  When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and royalist so that it may not have to fight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
8  The assailants, rushing into the wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
9  Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT
10  He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
11  Javert was the first to alight; he made sure with one glance of the number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr confronting each other, he gave a violent peal.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE
12  The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on the north.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
13  Marius, however, having rallied his ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of a sudden, they heard some one singing on the stairs as he went.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON