1 Javert is an estimable man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but important functions.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 2 They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during rigorous cold, but in cells where no fire was ever lighted; they slept, not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 3 He was, then, as punctual as the Samaritan woman, and the most rigorous casuist with regard to duels could have nothing to say.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 4 Besides, his probity was irreproachable, in an age in which soldiers compromised so easily with their religion and their consciences, lovers with the rigorous delicacy of our era, and the poor with God's Seventh Commandment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS 5 Oh, fear not," said Maximilian, stopping at a short distance, "I do not intend to render another man responsible for the rigorous fate reserved for me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 6 As he went out into the rigorous night, I saw the lonely figure flit away before us.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER 7 Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.
8 Each of his senses was brought under a rigorous discipline.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 9 The rigors which had attacked Barrois gradually increased, the features of the face became quite altered, and the convulsive movement of the muscles appeared to indicate the approach of a most serious nervous disorder.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 79. The Lemonade. 10 The speaker looked round upon the bystanders, now drawing closer to hear him, with his lips gathered tighter than ever in the rigorousness of his descriptive moderation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 11 My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and many such details.
12 The state of the places of which we are here giving a description is rigorously exact, and will certainly awaken a very precise memory in the mind of old inhabitants of the quarter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT