1 To crown all, his poverty had returned.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW 2 These resources, gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES 3 The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 4 Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his poverty was noble, his garret was neat.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 5 The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY 6 Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE 7 This graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into dignity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 8 Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 9 Then there would be an unpleasant scene; a recrudescence of family questions, a confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, poverty, a stone about his neck, the future.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY ... 10 A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is avoided.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 11 All day long, he buried himself in social questions, salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those enormous beings.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC