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1  An old fellow of the old school.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF ...
2  At seven o'clock the school opened, and he entered.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
3  There is a school there for those who choose to learn.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
4  Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by chance.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
5  Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law school.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
6  There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate Waterloo.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
7  He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
8  This was an event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
9  No fire was lighted except in the school, and the food was choice compared to that in the convent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
10  He created at his own expense an infant school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old and infirm workmen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
11  In the same building with the printing office there was a school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years old.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
12  The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
13  The lower town, in which he lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
14  There was at Toulon a school for the convicts, kept by the Ignorantin friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the unfortunate men who had a mind for them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  A metaphysical school of the North, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the word Will.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
16  The mystical school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare that Javert was a symbol.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
17  As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject nothing a priori, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied by it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
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