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1 Such magnificent and beautiful things did not appear real.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
2 Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
3 War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
4 At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
5 One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral visit saw a pretty little rosy girl with beautiful golden hair enter the class-room through which he was passing.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
6 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 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
7 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 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY