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1  A queer kind of fear, bourgeois.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV—THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN
2  A little roughness is good in cases of fear.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
3  Teeth and claws fear what they cannot grasp.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT
4  This time, the fear was genuine; the stone was there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT
5  But fear nothing, Miss, I fasten the shutters up like prisons.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT
6  He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the wall, for fear of alarming her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN
7  The old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth it can no longer be employed in politics.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
8  They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
9  Five years' sojourn between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed or dispersed the elements of fear.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET
10  He felt that it was a change in a happy life, a life so happy that he did not dare to move for fear of disarranging something.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
11  They already covered more than two-thirds of the barrier, but they did not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some trap.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV—THE BARREL OF POWDER
12  These brutalities, which are only matter, entertain a confused fear of having to deal with the immense obscurity condensed into an unknown being.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT
13  The executioner, le taule; the forest, le sabri; fear, flight, taf; the lackey, le larbin; the mineral, the prefect, the minister, pharos; the devil, le rabouin.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
14  That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—THINGS OF THE NIGHT
15  , that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
16  All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
17  He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II—THE FLAG: ACT SECOND
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