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1  The vast rout held their peace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
2  Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
3  In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and silence.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
4  To keep the peace, was an increase of complication.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
5  I haven't much taste for warriors in time of peace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ...
6  Social philosophy consists essentially in science and peace.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
7  As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
8  They take possession of peace, of tranquillity, of leisure; behold, they are content.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
9  In this way, say they, peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair the house, can be had after a revolution.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
10  In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, to be small.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
11  All was peace and silence; there was no one on the road; a few stray laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to their work along the side-paths.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
12  Under the Restoration, the nation had grown accustomed to calm discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
13  From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
14  I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
15  At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting glances like chained wolves.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
16  For a space of fifteen years, those great principles which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
17  This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly majestic monument, stamped with a sort of magnificent and savage gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal classes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
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