1 She was decidedly a marvellous beauty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DIVRS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON 2 The little beauty inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 3 It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, maternity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT 4 Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like Eve; beauty begins with thee.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 5 Nevertheless, on scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained her beauty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 6 As three days in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had sufficed to clothe her with beauty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST 7 The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated in the town for the beauty of the flowers which he cultivated there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH 8 Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and Dante kneel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER 9 Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in painful meditation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—MARIUS, WHILE SEEKING A GIRL IN A BONNET, ... 10 The remains of beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY 11 Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain ugly features have a cause in the very depths of eternal beauty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 12 Her pallor had become whiteness; her cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they remained closed and drooping.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS ... 13 He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the infinite, and, through light, produce beauty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 14 She had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired what may be called the beauty of goodness.
15 And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich and simple elegance, and without affectation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST 16 It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than from the pretty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY 17 And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an eagle.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.