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1  Cosette, after having been your providence, he became mine.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
2  In order to provide more arms, one man took the gun, the other the bayonet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
3  A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the invisibility.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
4  With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are sincere.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
5  He very speedily perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is provided.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
6  Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
7  Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in a manner provided against unexpected accidents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
8  As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
9  It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel springing from the earth in the form of Thenardier.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
10  This case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of five years, two of them in the double chain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
11  Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be found to be provided with a better light than man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
12  He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
13  Thanks to him, everywhere present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
14  People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
15  All the lineaments which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths produce ebullitions on the surface.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
16  The lawyer wound up by beseeching the jury and the court, if the identity of Jean Valjean appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties which are provided for a criminal who has broken his ban, and not the frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a second offence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ...
17  However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
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