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1  sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
2  So long as you are in this state I shall oppose your having your child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY
3  I oppose no objection to that; but I reserve Monsieur Naigeon for myself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
4  The army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION
5  She had just seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
6  To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
7  They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
8  I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my life, but he will permit me to remark that I am within the bounds of my authority.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
9  There came over him at moments a strange emotion which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during the last twenty years of his life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
10  So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
11  You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you are generous.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
12  The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful astonishment.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP