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1  Love is life, if it is not death.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
2  And that causes the death of Caesar.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
3  And she sank down as though on the point of death.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
4  I have, therefore, tried that man, and condemned him to death.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ...
5  Beneath a veil of incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death and night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY
6  The fact is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any question of Claquesous.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ...
7  His death, which was expected, was dreaded by the people as a loss, and by the government as an occasion.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
8  Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of Saint-Merry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
9  In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of the Hundred Days.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
10  For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of flight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
11  No more light was to be hoped for, henceforth, except the lightning of guns, no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
12  During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence committed against the King.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
13  He was, as the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even sorrow cannot curve.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ...
14  It was an absent one, tranquil and dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
15  Legitimist tricks were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked out for death at that very moment when the populace were designating him for the Empire.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
16  We shall therefore bring to light, among the known and published peculiarities, things which have not heretofore been known, about facts over which have passed the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
17  Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, contempt of death on the part of passers-by.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
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