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1  The mother had nursed him, but she did not love him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
2  Close by a very young woman was nursing another child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
3  And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
4  Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; Jehovah for men.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
5  The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with repugnance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
6  Fantine had nursed her child, and this had tired her chest, and she coughed a little.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
7  He was so dreamy when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought him in love with her.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—TAKEN PRISONER
8  She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
9  The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister Perpetue and Sister Simplice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
10  Firm and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a step-mother, is sometimes a mother; destitution gives birth to might of soul and spirit; distress is the nurse of pride; unhappiness is a good milk for the magnanimous.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
11  This was all that could be seen by passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and at the end of the courtyard a low building consisting of two rooms and a cellar, a sort of preparation destined to conceal a child and nurse in case of need.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET