1 I imagined that all that belonged to me.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY 2 The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ... 3 A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of imagination.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 4 Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy branches which is called the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 5 Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ... 6 The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU 7 In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the conflagration.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 8 Do not imagine that you have effected much change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera-morbus, and because your pourree is called the cachuca.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 9 Whoever has beheld a cloud which has fallen into a mountain gorge between two peaked escarpments can imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of lofty houses.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 10 Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean net-work of sewers, from a bird's eye view, will outline on the banks a species of large branch grafted on the river.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 11 Now, if there are any fathers among you, fathers whose happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child is his own.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE 12 The flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of horror.
13 It is impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: to idolize, to coo, to preen ourselves, to be dove-like, to be dainty, to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in one's little wife, to be proud, to be triumphant, to plume oneself; that is the aim of life.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING