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1  The image of the handsome officer was reflected in the surface.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED
2  She was, on the contrary, somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN
3  Marius still considered Cosette ugly, when she had already begun to think Marius handsome.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN
4  He has villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and handsome eyes because he has wit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL
5  Finding that he was handsome, he desired to be elegant: now, the height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ...
6  The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
7  You desire fine black cloth, varnished shoes, to have your hair curled and sweet-smelling oils on your locks, to please low women, to be handsome.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ...
8  It consisted of very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
9  Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the masses; he pleased.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
10  Montparnasse was a child; less than twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all vices and aspired to all crimes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ...
11  This woman flung herself on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, three stories high and entirely of cut stone.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
12  That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the gate.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED
13  These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that charming April which is called twenty years.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
14  He had been a mousquetaire, and then, he was said to be very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the world.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
15  The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated herself on the bench which they seemed to have adopted, she was a sort of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of handsome eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY ...
16  Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, well-opened and passionate nostrils, an air of calmness and sincerity, and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over his whole countenance.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY ...
17  It is known that Tolleron had a fireman's cap, Avril an otter cap, Losvel a round hat, that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffe and his mother quarrelled.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE ...
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