1 Madame Magloire had once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 2 Voltaire made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that God is useless.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING 3 The Parisians stared indifferently at this useless thing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 4 , the civilized world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 5 This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Thenardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 6 Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE 7 He took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his reading, being a botanist did not prevent his being a gardener.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF 8 Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS 9 She thought him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and extremely ugly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER 10 It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 11 It is useless to remove me from this spot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE 12 There was no waste of useless powder.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND... 13 Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in useless expenditure of them.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE 14 Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless and does not accept it.
15 Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little effort made by her memory.