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1  The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in this youth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
2  These creatures have neither childhood nor youth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
3  A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  The cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ...
5  The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to create aged youth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
6  Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called the beaute du diable of the mind.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
7  The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning flash.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
8  But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no longer there.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
9  Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
10  In their youth they had borne very little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
11  At the age when youth swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant blushes of wretchedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
12  At the point of this drama which we have now reached, it will not perhaps be superfluous to throw a ray of light upon these youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow of a tragic adventure.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
13  In his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same time, the most sullen of husbands and the most charming of lovers in existence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE
14  Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to hours of pallor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15  He was in accord neither with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and on the side of youth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI—RES ANGUSTA
16  Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
17  The youngest had a charming soul, which turned towards all that belongs to the light, was occupied with flowers, with verses, with music, which fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
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