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Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2 It was the first time that he had wept in nineteen years.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
3 He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
4 Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the galleys.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
5 On his departure from the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
6 Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and at the same time fell.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
7 One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen years.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
8 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
9 Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a crime which had lasted nineteen years.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR