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1  It served to receive the innocent whom society repulsed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
2  But let society take heed to the manner in which it breathes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
3  All had a revolutionary society which was called the Cougourde.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
4  If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
5  The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from society.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
6  The roots of French society were not fixed in the Bourbons, but in the nations.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
7  This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin of society.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
8  In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
9  It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in fashionable society, stink in the gullet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
10  There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood will no longer rush to its head.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
11  The public ministry of the day proved its indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IV—GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL
12  The president of the society came to see him, promised to speak to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce about him, and did so.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
13  When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
14  Study and investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of intersection of regular society with society which is accursed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
15  They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of their liberty as one would speak of his health.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
16  Suffering engenders wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves or fall asleep, which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of society.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
17  A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
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