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1  A fresh white bed had been prepared there.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY
2  The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
3  Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted the white wall which enclosed it.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
4  As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit by the nice white sheets.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY
5  She preferred to carry her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand rather than on her head.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
6  He carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
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 (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
8  There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
9  In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated chairs.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
10  Out of a similar sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
11  Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky of the twilight.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
12  A copper lamp illuminated the tablecloth of coarse white linen, the pewter jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking soup-tureen.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
13  For many years past, I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the visage of one damned.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
14  On the white margin he wrote a line or two, folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and lackey.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
15  A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
16  The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
17  She wore a gown of mauve barege, little reddish brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, whose name, canezou, a corruption of the words quinze aout, pronounced after the fashion of the Canebiere, signifies fine weather, heat, and midday.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
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