1 The thief had flung away the loaf, but his arm was still bleeding.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 2 Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT... 3 This orthography might have confounded the pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of a descent from the wicked thief.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT 4 He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE 5 A thief is admitted there, provided he be a god.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON 6 She shared her lodgings, which were furnished in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English thief.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 7 Such and such a phrase produces upon you the effect of the shoulder of a thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare.
8 Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.
9 The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, whoever passes by; le pantre.
10 In the midst of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—THE "SPUN" MAN 11 Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS... 12 This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that deposit.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN 13 Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 14 A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought about.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 15 Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, but he is a thief.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...