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1  He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP
2  Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
3  A fright which can be comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
4  That frightful tongue had become impossible to her since she had known Marius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
5  Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have done is horrible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ...
6  There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
7  The sun was shining brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits ideas to go and come in the brain.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
8  This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
9  It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
10  One thinks one beholds a frightful, living, and bristling thicket which quivers, rustles, wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
11  The frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was the equal of intelligence converted into despair.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
12  At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the populace and the military in front of the Arsenal, started a movement in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I—SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF ...