1 It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not disdain the canonship.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 2 This sudden and sometimes severely accentuated gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 3 Drawn away by her liaison with Tholomyes to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 4 He did not disdain his servants, which caused his wife to dispense with them.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 5 These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty years between them, but they already represented the whole society of man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 6 The Thenardier cast a glance of disdain on him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 7 Therefore I disdain the human race.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 8 The manner in which they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW 9 At every discharge by platoons, Gavroche puffed out his cheek with his tongue, a sign of supreme disdain.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE 10 Milady had listened to all this menacing tirade with a smile of disdain on her lips, but rage in her heart.
11 Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent.
12 "Don't let us speak of it: I was very sorry for you," she said, with a tinge of disdain which, as she instantly perceived, was not lost on him.
13 It was her exquisite inaccessibleness, the sense of distance she could convey without a hint of disdain, that made it most difficult for him to give her up.
14 Lily drew away with a movement of quick disdain: it was easier to endure his insolence than his commiseration.
15 But he had his mother's genius for trusting, her disdain for prying, her sure integrity.