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Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
2 To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
3 Ancient unhealthy and poisonous realities were covered with new appearances.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
4 They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, incendiaries, murderers, parricides.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
5 It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is poisoning London.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
6 A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
7 All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with perfume and with poison, which is called love.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING