1 The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was involuntarily revolutionary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? 2 The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL 3 A phenomenon which is often observable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 4 Nothing is more frequent than this phenomenon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST 5 A phenomenon whence arises ruin and new births.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 6 The phenomenon is perpetually returning upon itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 7 A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than one example extant.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 8 For, it must be stated to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary phenomenon and a social result.
9 In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; insurrection is always a moral phenomenon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 10 A phenomenon to which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN 11 Nevertheless, such a phenomenon is rare in Russia, where the tendency is rather to prodigality than to parsimony.
12 Properly to explain this phenomenon I should need to say a great deal about the ladies themselves, and to describe in the most vivid of colours their social intercourse and spiritual qualities.
13 For a while she thumped the gates so vigorously as to set all the dogs barking; then the gates stiffly opened, and admitted this unwieldy phenomenon of the road.
14 Koshkarev is a most reassuring phenomenon.
15 Prince Bagration and Prince Dolgorukov with their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the lights and shouts in the enemy's camp.