1 He habitually walked with drooping head.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW 2 This man is habitually engaged in digging a hole.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 3 I know not what vent-hole daylight habitually illumined his soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 4 He dwelt habitually in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 5 Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had everything about him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL 6 He habitually wore a hat with a wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 7 He was assailed by a fancy for peevish familiarity, common enough to doctors and priests, but which was not habitual with him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 8 He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other woman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 9 Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to theirs.
10 The bookcase was a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of wood painted to represent marble, and habitually without fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 11 His cunning began here; he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 12 And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always prepared for certain renunciations.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 13 We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear to us in all their horrible nakedness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68 14 He had for moving causes his habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the just, if there are any such.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 15 All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath his cap, which was well pulled down, assumed a vague appearance of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual suffering bestows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 16 The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 17 They do not seem to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living for a few minutes a monstrous life, that they have separated from the night.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 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.