1 Then you grow strong, and you laugh.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 2 She no longer felt strong enough to say a word.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ... 3 There are things which are too strong for the strongest man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS 4 One of them muttered: "A man would need to be devilish strong."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 5 A strong circulation warmed everything and penetrated everywhere.
6 A battalion of Nassau, seven hundred strong, was overwhelmed there.
7 Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still prodigiously strong.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 8 If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the strong man for you.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 9 He was one of those men who, though very young, have the air of age, and who, though slender, are extremely strong.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 10 Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 11 Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by certain signs, Thenardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very strong person.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES 12 Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without taking it.
13 Here is none of your heavy-sides, a student who studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and sapience, one of those dull wits cut by the square; a pin by profession.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 14 Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 15 Boulatruelle had allowed the person to pass, and had not dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that he would probably knock him over the head on recognizing him, and on perceiving that he was recognized.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, ... 16 The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams in the clouds; a strong breeze which blew in from the sea produced a sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; everything that could be seen assumed attitudes of terror.
17 Be that as it may, on entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak.
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