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1  Grouchy hoped for, Blucher arriving.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW
2  First he conceived an idea, then a hope.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT
3  In the second, perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that faint light of liberty which men call death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
4  He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent once more.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
5  She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and joy, and which mounted towards heaven.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE ...
6  He came and listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of his voice, but Jean Valjean saw his candle through the key-hole, and foiled the spy by keeping silent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
7  He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was tolerably large, hoping to see the person who had made his way by night into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ...
8  One hope remained to him; it was, that the men had not, perhaps, stepped on the bridge, and had not caught sight of him while he was crossing the large illuminated space, holding Cosette by the hand.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS ...
9  Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that passers-by would spit on his tomb.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
10  It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than from the pretty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY