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1  This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO ...
2  The vacation was beginning, and it was a warm, bright, summer day.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
3  off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
4  It has done nothing but rain all summer; the wind irritates me; the wind does not abate.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER
5  She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, but winter came again.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
6  Her entire clothing was but a rag which would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
7  In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
8  It would almost be true to say that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
9  One day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is fine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
10  The grave-diggers being thus bound to service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
11  These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers and nervous spasms.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
12  At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about there in flakes amid the shade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
13  He respected learned men greatly; he respected the ignorant still more; and, without ever failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer evening with a tin watering-pot painted green.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
14  It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was summer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
15  Mabeuf had succeeded in producing seedling pears as savory as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
16  There then existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been gathered, presented the appearance, not of having been reaped, but peeled.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
17  In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of the laws of modesty and of the police.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING ...
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