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1  The father turkey-cocks so grave.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
2  She was thrown into the public grave.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
3  Effort is quickly exhausted in the grave.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
4  He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost bass.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE ...
5  Javert was impassive; his grave face betrayed no emotion whatever.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
6  On the contrary, her condition seemed to become more grave from week to week.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
7  This declaration, made in a measured but firm tone, struck the stranger as grave.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
8  Each time that he uttered the word sir, in his voice which was so gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
9  That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
10  They ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between the musketry and the artillery, their colossal trampling was audible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
11  He was cool, calm, grave, his gray hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted the stairs with his habitual deliberation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
12  This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the spectator's attention.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
13  Any one who had seen him during the execution of these various acts, into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion of what was going on within him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
14  He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a star.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
15  However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
16  Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
17  Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been followed by a silence like that of the grave; those within the hall experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when something grand has been done.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
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