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1  Gillenormand was received in society.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
2  Gillenormand's departure from society.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND
3  In that society, they parodied the Revolution.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
4  And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
5  There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
6  Marius breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
7  The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above this law, as above every other.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
8  He had only retired to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of eighty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
9  lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
10  s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
11  The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in heroes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
12  There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, the great cavern of evil.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
13  These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
14  In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
15  All belonged to that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
16  They fabricate systems, they recast society, they demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as these women climb into their carts.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
17  She belonged to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and through great rays of gilded wood.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
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