1 I'd rather have had his name than his thanks.
2 For that I return thanks to the immortal gods.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE 3 I intend to pay a solemn call of thanks upon you.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 4 Thanks to him, she could walk through life; thanks to her, he could continue in virtue.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ... 5 It is, thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with arms, conquers Europe.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 6 He has at last been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the public prosecutor.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 7 In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means to procure, the homuncio enters a theatre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 8 And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF ... 9 The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was easy to enter, thanks to a large crack which touched the roof.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 10 When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns thanks for good.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 11 It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 12 Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 13 Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE 14 He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled the modest post of utility man in the literature of the publishing house.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 15 At that moment he saw distinctly, thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that lantern, on the dark side of the street.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY 16 He is firm serene, gentle, peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a rich man lacks: work, which makes him free; and thought, which makes him dignified.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 17 Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns is nothing but a dung-fork which he is carrying on his back, and whose teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his head.
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