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Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
2 The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
3 Any audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
4 The four planks of the coffin breathe out a kind of terrible peace.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS
5 He felt reassured and almost at peace, as though he had really been dead.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN ...
6 While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the sixty thousand men who had fallen on the field of Waterloo were quietly rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
7 What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence from which you could gather nothing, not even sighs, a gloom in which you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
8 Retired cloth-merchants and rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the plateau.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
9 Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED