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1  It is the rule of Saint-Benoit.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
2  The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
3  Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
4  Such is the rule of Saint-Benoit, aggravated by Martin Verga.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
5  He is the cure who rules over the other cures, you understand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
6  To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
7  There were numerous differences in their rule; there were some in their costume.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
8  This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation as an infraction of the rules.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
9  She shut herself up, which her rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to contemplate it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
10  The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
11  This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed on inanimate objects.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
12  These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers and nervous spasms.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
13  When the nuns were present at services where their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
14  After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
15  The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother whose turn it was, who, if a fly took a notion to fly or to hum against the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
16  In proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near when there would be but a dozen bent and aching shoulders to bear the heavy rule of Saint-Benoit.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
17  Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
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