1 Liberty once assured, attention must be directed to power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 2 From the proper employment of forces results public power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 3 It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and extraordinary power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 4 She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or stir, or turn her head.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS 5 It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an epoch in which a pot contains power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 6 Although fully aware of the gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 7 Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 8 From these two things combined, the public power without, individual happiness within, results social prosperity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 9 There is one word which crops up in every language of the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority.
10 You will have, like Venice, an artificial power, or, like England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 11 If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION 12 A false and dangerous situation, which sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State in the sufferings of the individual.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 13 The old man remained for several minutes motionless and as though struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though a clenched fist grasped his throat.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ... 14 Magic power which we should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves.
15 One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian accent mounted a stone post at the door of a liquor-seller in the Marche Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from an occult power.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 16 Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without etymology, without analogies, without derivatives, solitary, barbarous, sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of expression and which live.
17 It is no less skilful at causing a solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that mysterious power of progress, which brought the Orient and the Occident face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.