1 David d'Angers was trying to work in marble.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 2 The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work.
3 As for us, when Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION 4 While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed him, and demanded his papers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 5 He was busy over a great work on Duties, which was never completed, unfortunately.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 6 At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean Valjean was worth four men.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 7 There, some one might possibly know her and give her work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 8 When work is abundant, when the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the state nothing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS 9 Whether it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an industrious man, should have lacked bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 10 The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by her day's work; but it was sufficient; the problem was solved; she was earning her living.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS 11 When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in the charges for compelling and collection.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS 12 At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 13 As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, study, work, filled every day of his life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 14 It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, this iron, and these cords were possessed of will.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 15 She divided the fifty francs between the landlord and the furniture-dealer, returned to the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found herself without work, without a trade, with nothing but her bed, and still about fifty francs in debt.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 16 What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the afflicted, the sick, and the necessitous, he devoted to work.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO ... 17 He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack of foresight, and in the other case for its pitiless foresight; and to seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of work and an excess of punishment.
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