1 He inspired fear and confidence.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ... 2 A roof inspires him with no more fear than a mast.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE ... 3 However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS 4 At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her husband.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE 5 His aunt did not inform his grandfather of this refusal for fear of exasperating him.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA 6 Thenardier had conquered his last fears or his last scruples, and was advancing on the prisoner.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP 7 As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he had not cut the bonds of his left leg.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP 8 This trifle once out of your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that you have no further demands to fear.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP 9 He had just taken a look at it, and where he had expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN 10 He was scrutinizing everything around him in the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his head, directed in turn toward all the heads which surrounded him, moved on his neck with an astonished and attentive slowness, but there was nothing in his air which resembled fear.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP 11 These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath or mercy, with a sort of ennui.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP 12 To attempt, to brave, to persist, to persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; that is the example which nations need, that is the light which electrifies them.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN