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1 The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing his forefinger gently with his thumb.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
2 One day, in the Rue de l'Universite, one of these scamps was putting his thumb to his nose at the carriage gate of No.
Les Misérables 3By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING ...
3 A few days before that fixed on for the marriage, an accident happened to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
4 Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
5 Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it to Marius.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
6 Thenardier completed his phrase by drawing from his pocket, and holding, on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots.
Les Misérables 5By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ...
7 He raised himself on one elbow, took a bit of his cheek between his thumb and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of the death agony.
Les Misérables 1By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT