1 Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for respectable people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 2 He drew from his secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the passport of which he had made use that same year when he went to the elections.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 3 As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 4 He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him a strange and bitter aftertaste.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 5 The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of Theramene, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders great services to judicial eloquence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO... 6 The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though they had contained but one soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 7 She clasped her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to prayer in the way of violence and tenderness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY 8 All this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 9 Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in a scabbard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 10 This terror was the result of the quantity of revolution which was contained in him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT 11 Now, the coffer was too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH... 12 This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 13 Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and shallots.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATE... 14 The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it contained all the violence of voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 15 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 HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...