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1 Merit consists in working according to one's strength.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
2 She was in a state of such violent excitement that her strength was trebled.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
3 A man's whole strength is required to successfully carry out these singular ascents.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
4 They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their establishment as an element of strength.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
5 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 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER
6 At last, he was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands of his comrades.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
7 In the meantime, the unfortunate topman was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for fear of exhausting his strength.
Les Misérables 2By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...