1 He was transparent but impenetrable.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ... 2 To love a being is to render that being transparent.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 3 It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was within him.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 4 By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade became transparent.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 5 There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle reports, rumors, hearsay.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 6 Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, whiteness, candor, radiance.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT 7 He was troubled; that brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that crystal was clouded.
8 What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL 9 It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 10 Those rare dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront everything with perfection, would have caught a glimpse in this little working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the ancient sacred euphony.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 11 She had never been pretty; her whole life, which had been nothing but a succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired what may be called the beauty of goodness.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL 12 Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a swamp.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER