1 Jean Valjean preserved silence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 2 The purest figures may forever preserve the reflection of a horrible association.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 3 These stockings, which still preserved the graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE 4 But he could make himself no answer, except that the man resembled some one of whom his memory preserved a confused trace.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS ... 5 Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 6 Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know that the National Guard from the suburbs was valiant against insurrections.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 7 Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all connoisseurs.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU. 8 Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would prove of service in his researches.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 9 This sort of quagmire was common at that period in the subsoil of the Champs-Elysees, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its excessive fluidity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 10 The sum, six hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut shavings.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH ... 11 A certain good dram-shop keeper of Pantin des Vertus or la Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 12 This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun-carriage.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED