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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 3 By 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 3 By 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 5 By 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 4 By 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 5 By 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 5 By 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 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT