1 We have, each of us in his pocket, five or six millions in diamonds; you are more clever than I; you must go and bring Miss Cunegonde from Buenos Ayres.
2 The other five kings listened to this speech with generous compassion.
3 On board this galley there were four young men from Marseilles, five Neapolitan priests, and two monks from Corfu, who told us similar adventures happened daily.
4 There are thirty-six of you, in five or six small rooms.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 5 His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 6 He left behind him five or six very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in Genesis, In the beginning, the spirit of God floated upon the waters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO... 7 Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME 8 This glory of the Labarre of the Three Dauphins was reflected upon the Labarre of the Cross of Colbas, at a distance of five and twenty leagues.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 9 This case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of five years, two of them in the double chain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 10 English statistics prove the fact that four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 11 Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 12 That is why they rose at five o'clock in the morning.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 13 This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S 14 At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will be bearing us to our papas and mammas.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH 15 It was evident that his ribs would be broken in five minutes more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT