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1  Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
2  The old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
3  He was a shopkeeper in whom there was some taint of the monster.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS ...
4  Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
5  It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and had but one soul.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
6  That monster of a mayor, that old blackguard of a mayor, is the cause of all.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
7  Many stars had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws of a tiger.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
8  The Jondrette, touched by his compliment, deprecated it with the affected airs of a flattered monster.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX—OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS
9  Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS
10  In executing this man, I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, necessity's name is Fatality.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ...
11  As she passed the Thenardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in front of that vision of joy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
12  Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
13  This chain suggested, not the beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have been detached from some monster.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
14  The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
15  Matelote, large, plump, redhaired, and noisy, the favorite ex-sultana of the defunct Hucheloup, was homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was less homely than Mame Hucheloup.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
16  Formerly, the first human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, breathing on the waters, the dragon which vomited flame, the griffin who was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT ...
17  A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping children.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
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