1 He seemed to like to give to his thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of the other world.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE 2 We think that we have here reproduced the thing in strict accordance with the text.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP 3 Such was Feuilly's habitual text.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 4 God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text written in a mysterious tongue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 5 The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 6 From each remaining springs a party, and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 7 He knew enough Greek to enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 8 It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.
9 There's another rendering now; but still one text.
10 But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.
11 "Wal, it seems quite as plain a text, stranger," said John the drover, "to poor fellows like us, now;" and John smoked on like a volcano.
12 Father Purdon developed the text with resonant assurance.
13 It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.
14 It was a text for business men and professional men.
15 Such a book being there was wonderful enough; but still more astounding were the notes penciled in the margin, and plainly referring to the text.