1 The kingdom is upwards of three hundred leagues in diameter, and divided into thirty provinces; there the Fathers possess all, and the people nothing; it is a masterpiece of reason and justice.
2 It is sad to think that the love of a mother can possess villainous aspects.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK 3 Gross natures have this in common with naive natures, that they possess no transition state.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 4 These words possess the mysterious and admirable property of swelling the bill on the following day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 5 They possess nothing of their own, and they must not attach themselves to anything.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 6 The nuns here possess one privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN... 7 Nevertheless, whatever may be the contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this is it: disinterestedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 8 Gold and silver possess an odor for them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE 9 The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty.
10 The wine-shops of the Faubourg Antoine, which have been more than once drawn in the sketches which the reader has just perused, possess historical notoriety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ... 11 Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 12 We have happiness, we desire paradise; we possess paradise, we desire heaven.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 13 These lamentable tribes of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, they possess the heedless audacity of mind.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 14 So Marius possessed Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and seized her jealously with incredible conviction.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTE... 15 To have Cosette, to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from breathing.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTE...