1 "Hougomont," said the peasant woman.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 2 A woman with gray hair said to us: "I was there."
3 She was an ideal market-porter dressed in woman's clothes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 4 At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman emerged.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 5 He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who died of a shock at the moment of his arrest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 6 She turned the faucet; the child had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE ... 7 There was an unknown quantity about Thenardier; hence the absolute empire of the man over that woman.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 8 A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 9 On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in silver wire and orange flowers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 10 This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her children, and who did not fear any one except her husband.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 11 She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 12 Her skin was visible here and there and everywhere black and blue spots could be descried, which marked the places where the Thenardier woman had touched her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 13 Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the lugubrious air of an old woman.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE ... 14 Madame Thenardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which has caused this style of woman to be named megaeras.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 15 Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 16 The first story contained, as we have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ... 17 While dreaming and chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman.
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