1 so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand.
2 but it is bad to have a woman keep the wicket to the mouse-trap.
3 If I were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 4 It reconstructs the purple from the rag, and the woman from the scrap of her dress.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER 5 In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the National Guard from behind a lowered blind.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—PASSING GLEAMS 6 A man without a woman is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' ... 7 And then, Cosette, in whom the woman was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 8 The devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more cunning, took to loving woman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 9 Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was any possibility of having a woman here.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED 10 Among the heap they could distinguish a livid face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a woman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE 11 Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too happy to re-enter it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 12 He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him handsome, retained no more recollection of Cosette than of any other woman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 13 It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations in which the beloved man says what he pleases, explains nothing, and satisfies the beloved woman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS 14 It will be remembered that, on the arrival of the rabble in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her mattress in front of her window.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLD TALENTS OF A POACHER AND ... 15 Love is the sublime crucible wherein the fusion of the man and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being final, the human trinity proceeds from it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 16 Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue du Cygne a lighted casement, a candle in a poor window, on the fifth floor, and on the pane the quivering shadow of the head of an old woman, who had the air of having spent the night in watching.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE 17 Footprints stamped in the sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS ... Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.