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1  This patron saint suited this soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
2  But the names of saints are not interdicted.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
3  The one who is on the point of departure is a saint.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ...
4  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
5  Tasting a mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls do not detest this.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
6  The Oratory of France claimed the precedence, since Philip de Neri was only a saint, while Berulle was a cardinal.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
7  But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Chateauvieux.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X—ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION
8  This silence was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
9  Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other the redoubtable talents of a convict.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
10  Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a sudden, and without transition, he made a strange movement, which would have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY
11  The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Mother Presentation, Mother Passion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
12  A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is avoided.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
13  His order has produced forty popes, two hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
14  The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS