1 The nun did not raise her eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 2 She was a nun as other women are cooks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 3 No one was present excepting the nun and the mayor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 4 Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 5 The emotions of that day had turned the nun into a woman once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 6 She was a nun of Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT 7 She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 8 The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS ... 9 When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is visible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 10 About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as Madame Albertine.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 11 If, by chance, an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 12 If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only for a mother or sister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 13 She was learned, erudite, wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than a Benedictine nun.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS 14 She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 15 In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass through.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 16 At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 17 Sister Perpetue was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy.
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