1 Let us render to chance that which is due to chance, and to God that which is due to God.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 2 He had no doubt that if any one had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 3 A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT 4 That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of Waterloo, is the marvellous cleverness of chance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 5 If, by chance, an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 6 So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black man, and tried to rob the devil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 7 If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit became an apparition.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS 8 However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 9 But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed that it issued from an abyss.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY 10 Some time afterwards, it chanced that a police report was transmitted from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 11 Jomini divides the battle of Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?