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1  Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
2  Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
3  In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, he stepped behind him to smile.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY ...
4  In short, he had been administering to himself little inward remonstrances and he feared Marius' reproaches.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM ...
5  Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
6  The masses regarded these beds of decomposition, these monstrous cradles of death, with a fear that was almost religious.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
7  An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT
8  They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
9  Heavy masses, the multitudes which are fragile because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of adventure in the ideal.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
10  On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, Enjolras, for fear of a surprise in the rear, came to a serious decision.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
11  He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the urchin administered to it a fillip.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
12  Moreover, by thrusting Thenardier back into the very remotest depths, through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density of the shadows which enveloped this man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
13  His beauty, at that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh and rosy after the fearful four and twenty hours which had just elapsed, as though he could no more be fatigued than wounded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
14  One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND ...
15  The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
16  Formerly, the first human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT ...
17  It is probable that this silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received blows without retorting.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
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