1 , at the age of eighty, held himself erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 2 It is but just to add that he had forgotten to include in his calculations the forced repose of Sundays and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution of about eighty francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES 3 She sold all that she had, which produced for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about eighty francs left.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER 4 He sent the two brats back to their mother, promising to pay eighty francs a month for their maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any more.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN 5 He had only retired to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of eighty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING 6 Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF 7 These children were precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 8 An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the surrounding wall.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 9 He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he cherished some secret hope that he should arrive at the end of his days before reaching the end of his books.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 10 The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 11 Not one of the eighty cowards thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the leader, Barthelemy, of whom we shall speak presently.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 12 As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain unknown.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 13 He was eighty years old; before Marius' marriage, he would have hardly been taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUC... 14 Ah, I had eighty louis before me; put down the same sum, so that they who have lost may have nothing to complain of.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII 15 In a swath eighty miles wide the Yankees were looting and burning.