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1  That is good, reverend Mother.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
2  Mother Ascension will be there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
3  The Mother Precentors will be there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
4  "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
5  It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...
6  Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
7  The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost blind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
8  But without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very precious.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
9  Mother Thenardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her to hate the stranger.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
10  My brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ...
11  Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
12  To be buried in the vault under the altar of the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
13  The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, under our altar.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
14  At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who was ordinarily cheerful.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
15  There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was called Mother Assumption.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
16  The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Mother Presentation, Mother Passion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
17  Each followed her own rule, Sometimes the pupils of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them a visit; the result is, that all those young memories have retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
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