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1  There were no stars in the sky.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
2  There were no stars in the sky even yet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
3  We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
4  Not more than two or three stars were visible in the sky.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
5  In the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
6  I went into the fields, intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
7  They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up again and shone like stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
8  Legends, chimeras, the soul, immortality, paradise, the stars, are provided for them to swallow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
9  Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and shortened in a singular manner through the darkness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
10  With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
11  Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
12  He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine; he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
13  At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
14  But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars were the lanterns of a carriage.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
15  Upon this board was painted something which resembled a man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably represented a battle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
16  Behind him and around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he was protecting order, he was causing the law to yield up its thunders, he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, he was standing erect in the midst of a glory.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
17  Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are summed up all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity had also long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all studded with stars.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
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