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1  That sinister nettle had loved and protected that lily.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
2  It was marriage sublimated; these two children were two lilies.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
3  She was at the age when the virgin bears her love as the angel his lily.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
4  Nothing of all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ...
5  This sort of love is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
6  His massive couch, all covered with gilding, with great branches of lilies painted on the panels, thundered noisily along.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
7  The flower-beds accepted the legitimate royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which emanates from whiteness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
8  It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
9  All was grace and gayety, even the impending rain; this relapse, by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the charming threat of flying low.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER