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1  They can be seen devouring cherries among the wheat.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—HIS FRONTIERS
2  In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured this bliss.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE
3  No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his meagre supper.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
4  Javert smiled, and advanced across the open space which the Thenardier was devouring with her eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE ...
5  Marius learned how all this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has to devour.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
6  Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT
7  A score of times he had been tempted to fling himself upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to arrest him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
8  In the Luniere fontis, it would have taken a man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five minutes by the Philippeaux slough.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
9  Such a point of the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which is poured on them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
10  in particular, a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred thousand francs a year in Paris.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
11  The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as he grew up, he would devour the other little ones.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
12  On the one hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
13  He read the Moniteur, he read all the histories of the Republic and the Empire, the Memorial de Sainte-Helene, all the memoirs, all the newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
14  The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
15  He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the blow, those who weep and those who curse, those who fast and those who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
16  It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous horses of civilization which devour coal and vomit fire.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
17  While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the surface, is almost intact on the interior.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
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