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1  It was he who had brought those garments to Montfermeil for her.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
2  His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has been up all night.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
3  He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER ...
4  Jean Valjean, pushing aside the garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' breast; his heart was still beating.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
5  He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to the petticoat, the stockings beside the shoes, and he looked at them, one after the other.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
6  He was dressed in black from head to foot, in garments that were very threadbare but clean; a bunch of seals depending from his fob suggested the idea of a watch.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
7  On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his pockets, the roll which had been forgotten there on the preceding evening, and Marius' pocketbook.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS
8  If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
9  Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was alive.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
10  Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, and if any one had passed up the stairs at that moment, he would have heard frightful sobs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
11  Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
12  From it he slowly drew forth the garments in which, ten years before, Cosette had quitted Montfermeil; first the little gown, then the black fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, then the woollen stockings.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE