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1 For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
2 They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their cause.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
3 Certain success would attend the experiment of employing the city to manure the plain.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
4 The successive and simultaneous scenes of this grand slaughter we renounce all attempts at depicting.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
5 As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an abrupt conclusion.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
6 Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
7 Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old coat which he took for the black flag, he loudly blamed the generals and chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the moment for the decisive assault had arrived, and who were allowing "the insurrection to fry in its own fat," to use the celebrated expression of one of them.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER