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1 And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
2 He himself explained this with the irresistible accents of truth.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
3 It seems as though Utopia had no longer any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
4 She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
5 That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking against God.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
6 The mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the battlements.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
7 As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had been furnished expressly for him, and Cosette had said to him in such an irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
8 For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...