1 To breathe Paris preserves the soul.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 2 These salons did not long preserve their purity.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 3 Marius had preserved the religious habits of his childhood.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO ... 4 Their prayer will not be in vain, and their gratitude will preserve theirs charming souvenir.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 5 The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE ... 6 Beyond the Agnus Dei and Ave Maria, Mademoiselle Vaubois had no knowledge of anything except of the different ways of making preserves.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR 7 Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in the heart of man.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND 8 Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, without raising his voice, and even during his struggle with the six ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular silence.
9 Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at Montfermeil.
10 He doubts not that your honorable person will grant succor to preserve an existence exteremely painful for a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la Marquise bears to a nation so unfortunate.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 11 The silence preserved by the prisoner, that precaution which had been carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter a cry, all this, it must be confessed, now that his attention had been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful astonishment.