1 What he had just done smacked of theft.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER III—WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP 2 She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger.
3 The theft of a nation cannot be allowed by prescription.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 4 He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 5 Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS 6 He obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 7 The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples had not been circumstantially proved.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 8 It is about a sort of blackguard; a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ... 9 It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 10 Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 11 Half of the adventure was completed; it only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it to take a short trip in the direction of the poor.
12 One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and that he had actually been guilty of theft.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 13 On leaving the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway on the person of a little Savoyard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 14 A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 15 It was proved by the skilful and eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member of a band of robbers in the south.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 16 This is the second time, during his studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of departure for the disaster of a destiny.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 17 But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life.
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