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1  full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
2  The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle in the cathedral.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
3  He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, and despoiled the sacristy.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
4  In the morning he meditated for an hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own house.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO ...
5  As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we should be embarrassed by any inquiry in that direction.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
6  All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
7  A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
8  After the delivery of that sermon, it was observed that he gave a sou every Sunday to the poor old beggar-women at the door of the cathedral.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
9  This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE
10  The door of the dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door of a prison.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
11  The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the fellies, the hub, the axle, and the shaft, a layer of mud, a hideous yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond of ornamenting cathedrals.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
12  There, near a factory, and between two garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
13  This garden was no longer a garden, it was a colossal thicket, that is to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, solitary as a tomb, living as a throng.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS