1 But I am giving you a great deal of work.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 2 He never passed this man without giving him a few sous.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ... 3 Pagan mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 4 Gentlemen, the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE 5 His knees were giving way beneath him; the perspiration was pouring from him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA 6 They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are inoculating themselves with the past.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 7 It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a second soul, the right.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 8 There are people who read very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word of honor as to what they are perusing.
9 Madeleine had intrusted to her for charitable purposes, and for giving assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 10 He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 11 Javert, by taking too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so made him run.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 12 The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the mind of old inhabitants of the quarter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT 13 The winner of the battle of Waterloo was not Napoleon, who was put to flight; nor Wellington, giving way at four o'clock, in despair at five; nor Blucher, who took no part in the engagement.
14 Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's cuirassiers, had scrutinized the ground, but had not been able to see that hollow road, which did not even form a wrinkle on the surface of the plateau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 15 One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths of the chestnut-trees.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING 16 To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a peasant, and Mademoiselle Baptistine that of a lady.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 17 Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.