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1  Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep on a stone bench.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2  He could not get to sleep again, and he fell to thinking.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
3  The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
4  He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and to sleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
5  The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying gaze.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
6  I went into the fields, intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
7  The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
8  He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked by a joy for him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
9  Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had heard a noise above his head.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE
10  She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
11  I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this traveller to go to sleep, and we both went up stairs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...
12  He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
13  But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which transfigured her in her sleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS ...
14  He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the condemned man for his own.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
15  Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils after the manner of convicts, he dropped, all dressed as he was, upon the bed, where he immediately fell into a profound sleep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY
16  In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
17  This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her mind in all the five years during which she had been parted from her child.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
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