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1  In this bed Cosette was sleeping.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
2  Cosette was in a profound sleep; she was fully dressed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
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3  He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with joy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
4  He remembered that sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
5  That done, she laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
6  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
7  A chamber where one sleeps costs twenty sous; a chamber in which one reposes costs twenty francs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
8  The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
9  All undergo the same tonsure, wear the same frock, eat the same black bread, sleep on the same straw, die on the same ashes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF ...
10  And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
11  One beholds floating, either in space or in one's own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the dreams of sleeping flowers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
12  He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of use, in the most remote corner of the shed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
13  A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an angel drinking in the light.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
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14  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
15  Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who was so rich and so kind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
16  The little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
17  And finally, they were not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they were obliged, in the weariness of their first slumber, at the moment when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, with their knees on the stones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
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