1 Myriel was the son of a councillor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar.
2 These conjunctions are formed and dissolved incessantly; hence life and death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 3 Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence death.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES 4 He who quits the field is beaten; hence the necessity devolving on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of trees, and of studying deeply the slightest relief in the ground.
5 The bayonets plunged into the bellies of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably never been seen anywhere else.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 6 Hence the terrified wrinkle of those brows; hence all those great souls surrendering their swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 7 There was an unknown quantity about Thenardier; hence the absolute empire of the man over that woman.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 8 It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU 9 Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 10 It was a flood tide complicated with a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people adored both Napoleon and liberty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 11 Some misfortune happened to him every moment, hence his joviality.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 12 Poverty instantly lays material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds towards the ideal life.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 13 Hence incorruptibility; hence the miscarriage of unhealthy lusts; hence eyes heroically lowered before temptations.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 14 It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE 15 Enthusiasm may wax wroth; hence the appeal to arms.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...