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1  Cosette was no longer in rags; she was in mourning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
2  This mourning was noticed in the town, and commented on.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
3  A profound vagueness enveloped that form clad in mourning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
4  It was like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
5  As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
6  He, Jean Valjean, had made her abandon those rags to clothe herself in these mourning habiliments.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
7  This was the same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted the Thenardiers' inn.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
8  There was nothing but fright, mourning, stupor in the houses; and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS
9  The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors constitute the only variety in convents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
10  He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we have just described was effected within him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
11  She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
12  His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure a lodging.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN ...
13  The mother must have felt pleased in her grave, to see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that she was properly clothed, and that she was warm.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE
14  Widowhood and the grief of others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with the priests groaning around a coffin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
15  Daylight was appearing when those of the inhabitants of Montfermeil who had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, pass along the road to Paris.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
16  Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for him, summoned and interrogated all the little Savoyards who passed that way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of Javert.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
17  The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, a potpourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called The Vestal; the trees shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by spectres.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
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