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1  She is an angel, you see, my sisters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
2  The sisters will carry it to the chapel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
3  Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
4  He confided her to the sisters, who put her to bed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
5  In the main arm were the cells of the mothers, the sisters, and the novices.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VIII—POST CORDA LAPIDES
6  The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with repugnance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
7  If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, the sisters lay her out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ...
8  As the sisters were melancholy and he was kind, the child made comparisons and adored him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
9  The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three apostles are my brothers, the three virgins are my sisters.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
10  One day the sisters heard her say amid her fever: "I have been a sinner; but when I have my child beside me, it will be a sign that God has pardoned me."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
11  The two nuns who performed the services of nurse in the infirmary, Lazariste ladies, like all sisters of charity, bore the names of Sister Perpetue and Sister Simplice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
12  Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS
13  Father Madeleine had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two sisters of charity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS
14  The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajae is one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters felt it with the double force contributed by religion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
15  In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed when they were watching with the sick.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
16  He repaired to Fantine's bed of suffering, as usual, and prolonged his visit, through a kindly instinct, telling himself that he must behave thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be obliged to be absent himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
17  The doll of the Thenardier sisters was very much faded, very old, and much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who had never had a doll in her life, a real doll, to make use of the expression which all children will understand.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
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