1 The refuse heaps are miserable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH 2 The misery of a young man is never miserable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 3 A subterranean edifice erected in common by all the miserable.
4 Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact.
5 It required the disturbance of a day like that to account for these miserable little creatures being in that garden.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 6 A sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their consciences were not heavy within them any more.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 7 Sometimes the pile of sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 8 He was a miserable scamp, a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 9 The lower town, in which he lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys.
10 He reflected bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR 11 Here is her little gown, I am a miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again, and I was saying that at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY 12 The vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 13 His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the incomplete copies of his Flora which were in his possession, he had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a second-hand bookseller.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 14 The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the cells which we have already mentioned.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE 15 Terrible, toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable.
16 The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible likeness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 17 A few paces more, and you arrive at the abominable pollarded elms of the Barriere Saint-Jacques, that expedient of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and shameful Place de Grove of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority.
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