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1  "Give it to me," said the inspector.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
2  At forty years of age he was an inspector.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
3  "That makes a lump that can be seen," said the inspector.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
4  he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an inspector.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
5  I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
6  Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by any one.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
7  If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will arrest me.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
8  The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an inspector who takes his place.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
9  Marius had given his key to the inspector of police; it was important, therefore, that he should make haste.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES
10  And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du Petit-Banquier.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
11  He played in the Tuileries garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in the earth with his shovel, with my cane.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
12  He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his face, but his name as well.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE
13  Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not seen the two delinquents.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
14  The story had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Moniteur, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of mental aberration and a suicide.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH ...