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1  Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of these crossroads.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
2  In this avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there was acceptance of peril.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
3  And therein lies the great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk on when she desires to halt.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
4  The two bridges, situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in formidable wise through the arches.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
5  It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and from Minerva turns to Pallas.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
6  A revolt was, in its eyes, no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in peril.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN
7  Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine was lacking, they poured out gayety to all.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' ...
8  The occupation of sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror and handed over to the executioner.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
9  Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; and the first comer took it upon himself to save society.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
10  Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous position.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE ...