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1  Now there is the yellow passport.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
2  It was necessary to show him the yellow passport.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
3  This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
4  He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow paper, which he unfolded.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
5  It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must be an object coveted by all.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6  He very speedily perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is provided.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
7  The seed of the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
8  The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to this detail.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
9  This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, which I had shown at the town-hall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
10  A young girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in the wind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
11  When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure himself that he was not being followed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
12  He was a small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and his whole person, and an immense force in his glance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
13  Mademoiselle Baptistine's ambition had been to be able to purchase a set of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose pattern, and with mahogany in swan's neck style, with a sofa.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
14  I was coming from Ailly; I was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
15  At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
16  He wore a very old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; and thick shoes with copper buckles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
17  From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, with dust for smoke, and an air of fury, grinding the pavements, changing all the paving-stones into steels.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
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