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 in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 3 Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 4 He thought no more about the girl now that she was beautiful than he had when she was homely.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST 5 He knew her eyes, her brow, her beauty, her form, her walk, he did not know the sound of her voice.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 6 The beautiful child understood nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ... 7 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 8 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 9 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 10 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, ... 11 He fell to thinking once more of his six months of love and happiness in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of Luxembourg.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE 12 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 13 This did not prevent the beautiful child from smiling as she listened to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could be more fascinating than that fresh smile, combined with those drooping eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST 14 All political opinions were matters of indifference to him, and he approved them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the Eumenides.
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 Sometimes, he remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently raised, sought the beautiful girl, and she, on her side, turned her charming profile towards him with a vague smile.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ... 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.
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