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1  In truth, this laughter is suspicious.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
2  "I told the truth," replied Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
3  The truth could be felt in that chill of the tomb.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
4  The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
5  The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
6  He himself explained this with the irresistible accents of truth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN
7  No," retorted Marius, "the truth is the whole truth; and that you did not tell.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
8  Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but without committing great ravages, to tell the truth.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE
9  It, the truth of to-morrow, borrows its mode of procedure, battle, from the lie of yesterday.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...
10  Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
11  All the uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER
12  Jean Valjean, in the thick cloud of the combat, did not appear to see Marius; the truth is, that he never took his eyes from the latter.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
13  The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet around the light.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT ...
14  Now, Paris contains one twenty-fifth of the total population of France, and Parisian guano being the richest of all, we understate the truth when we value the loss on the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which France annually rejects.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
15  We are few in number, we have a whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the three hundred Spartans.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ...