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1  Marius listened to this bourgeois.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
2  These men patiently pursue these bourgeois.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
3  "He is the disgrace of my family," said the old bourgeois.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN
4  There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they have a "stealable" air.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
5  He was horrified by all the names which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and bourgeois.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT
6  But the bourgeois of the epoch of la Minerve estimated so highly that poor de, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
7  Later on, this disappears like the playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
8  Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, dominated by a bourgeois.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
9  As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Theodule entered clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and was discreetly introduced by Mademoiselle Gillenormand.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
10  He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great age added to it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
11  He was a peculiar old man, and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH