1 Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 2 The heart is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many brave men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 3 One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the spider brought life, not death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 4 Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered himself to all blows in that tempest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE GUARD 5 Night came, death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed themselves to be enveloped therein.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 6 Wherever it is placed on the borders of a capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a city.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 7 Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 8 This form was lying face downward, flat on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the immobility of death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA 9 It was through it that, under the Empire and the Restoration, prisoners condemned to death re-entered Paris on the day of their execution.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 10 , who had performed the coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 11 The walls are in the death agony, the stones fall; the breaches cry aloud; the holes are wounds; the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee.
12 Duhesme, the general of the Young Guard, hemmed in at the doorway of an inn at Genappe, surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew the prisoner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 13 However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 14 While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 15 that egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only once, because it occurred after the death of Alexander.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 16 These combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 17 A few paces more, and you arrive at the abominable pollarded elms of the Barriere Saint-Jacques, that expedient of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and shameful Place de Grove of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority.
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