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1  She detests the serpent from professional jealousy.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
2  Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  This had filled him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, to injure Madeleine.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
4  By bringing jealousy into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had educed the justice of revenge.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  It is thus, in fact, that the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY
6  Moreover, setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had contained nothing agreeable for him; the white stocking of the first woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY
7  Equality, citizens, is not wholly a surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally speaking, it is all aptitudes possessed of the same opportunity; politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, it is all consciences possessed of the same right.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT ...