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Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
2 The fervent were chosen in dreams and possessed Christ.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
3 It was Napoleon, the immense somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to advance.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
4 One beholds floating, either in space or in one's own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the dreams of sleeping flowers.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
5 It is a delight to him to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
6 While dreaming and chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
7 At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the catastrophe takes possession of him.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
8 Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on perceiving that he was recognized.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ...