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1  The nuns here possess one privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ...
2  Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of the Boeuf Gras, had the same privilege.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
3  Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the privilege of speech to chattering.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
4  Although fully aware of the gnawing power of light on privileges, he left his throne exposed to the light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE
5  All enjoyments for some, all privations for the rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, feudalism, born from toil itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
6  An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
7  ; and that which they wished to overturn in overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
8  At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was suppressed later on.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
9  Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Serent, often visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of the privilege Magnates mulieres, and caused great consternation in the boarding-school.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS