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1  One had chestnut hair; the other, brown.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
2  Zephine and Dahlia had their hair dressed in rolls.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
3  It is a pity that this skin is old; all the hair is falling out.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...
4  She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the baby wig.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
5  He had gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the thoughtful visage of a philosopher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
6  His hair was closely cut, yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to have been cut for some time.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
7  The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
8  Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, nun-like cap, tied under the chin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
9  The child was standing with his back to the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
10  For many years past, I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the visage of one damned.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
11  But in proportion as his youth disappeared, gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
12  Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to wave, and which easily uncoiled, and which it was necessary to fasten up incessantly, seemed made for the flight of Galatea under the willows.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
13  As he went on eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air of perceiving nothing and allowing it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
14  It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the air of a head of hair studded with flowers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
15  Later on, when her hair, arranged in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magaera began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thenardier was nothing but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
16  Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; Listolier adored Dahlia, who had taken for her nickname the name of a flower; Fameuil idolized Zephine, an abridgment of Josephine; Tholomyes had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
17  At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over his savage head.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
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