1 There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 2 The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of Judgment.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES 3 This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 4 Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who triumphs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 5 Then a formidable spectacle was seen.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 6 The cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other without releasing the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 7 There, abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their death-throes in formidable fashion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 8 That formidable remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE 9 This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her children, and who did not fear any one except her husband.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 10 The formidable neck and shoulders belonged to Javert.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PROD... 11 As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 12 Another was never known in the convent except by the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT 13 This question has certain mysterious, almost formidable sides; may we be permitted to look at it fixedly.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST 14 Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 15 The search for these "deaf things" among the stones is a joy of formidable nature.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS