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1  She was a soul rather than a virgin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—M. MYRIEL
2  It is a virgin looking like a woman.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—EFFECT OF THE SPRING
3  The lover is the priest; the ravished virgin is terrified.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
4  My soul flits away into the virgin forests and to the savannas.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
5  She was at the age when the virgin bears her love as the angel his lily.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW
6  One would have pronounced her a virgin on the point of turning into a goddess.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
7  Fantine had the long, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the sacred fire with a golden pin.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
8  His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ...
9  At Ecouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, a distinction was made between virgins and florists.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
10  Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the foolish virgins.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
11  But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock in the virgin forest.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
12  She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
13  The bal Mabile is not the polymnia dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla lay in wait for the virgin Planesium.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO
14  Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which was so virgin and so young.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED
15  There is nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
16  A letter without name, without address, without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the love-letter of a phantom to a shade.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
17  As for the other duties the Bishop found them pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
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