1 He was learned even to erudition, and almost an Orientalist.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 2 This man's name the reader has learned in the preceding book.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 3 So she was the prey of a vague appetite for learning a history.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 4 Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was interested in learning.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS 5 Marius had learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate inn-keeper.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 6 He had taught himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by himself.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 7 Marius learned how all this is eaten, and how such are often the only things which one has to devour.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 8 Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go and see them, when they learned about him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY 9 The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while you are learning English, and five while learning German.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA 10 Let us learn how to make use of that vast conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth and quivers at certain hours.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE 11 He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of the Polytechnic, a close student, and at the same time, thoughtful "even to chimaeras," so his friends said.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 12 The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and words to be clearly distinguished.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE 13 He brooded with the profound divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the idea of the nationality, had learned history with the express object of raging with full knowledge of the case.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 14 He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing house.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 15 When she took her departure, he had but one thought, to follow her, to cling to her trace, not to quit her until he learned where she lived, not to lose her again, at least, after having so miraculously re-discovered her.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 16 Had Marius been a little more learned in this line, he would have recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, certain instruments which will force a lock or pick a lock, and others which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call cadets and fauchants.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE