1 He had not learned to read in his childhood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 2 Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 3 Sometimes he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO ... 4 Madame Thenardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES 5 He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 6 Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the staircase.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 7 She never read anything but a book of prayers printed in Latin, in coarse type.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE 8 He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 9 Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the letter once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 10 Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end would prove her own.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 11 He seemed to read it attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 12 At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will be bearing us to our papas and mammas.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH 13 At the expiration of a quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thenardiers' letter once more on the staircase.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 14 In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON 15 He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, To Monsieur Laffitte, Banker, Rue d'Artois, Paris.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 16 Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyes, then a second, then a third.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 17 The comedian Picard, who belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Moliere had not been able to do, had The Two Philiberts played at the Odeon, upon whose pediment the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to be plainly read.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 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.