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1  This orphan had adopted the peoples.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
2  Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
3  She was declared an orphan, both father and mother being dead.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
4  I shall not defend the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
5  Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon him; he came of his own accord.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
6  He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
7  He founded hospitals, opened schools, visited the sick, dowered young girls, supported widows, and adopted orphans; he was like the guardian angel of the country.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
8  Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but one thought, to deliver the world.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
9  Taking the words in their most comprehensive and absolute sense, we may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation caused Jean Valjean to become Cosette's father after a celestial fashion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
10  Marius had told Cosette that he was an orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on bad terms with his grandfather who was rich.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS