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1  A tolerably long silence ensued.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
2  It continued to yield in silence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL
4  The Bishop listened to all this in silence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  Favourite was the first to break the silence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
6  A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
7  As he knew the moment for silence he knew also the moment for speech.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
8  This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly emitted amid the silence a hoarse and prolonged cry.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
9  Javert advanced two or three paces into the study, and halted, without breaking the silence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
10  The Bishop was accustomed to listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
11  Silence always produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven to the wall.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
12  There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
13  There was, so to speak, silence in her speech; she said just what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would have equally edified a confessional or enchanted a drawing-room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
14  There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
15  Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their voices had frightened off the rats; at the expiration of a few minutes, they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast asleep and heard nothing more.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
16  He took very little part in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on questions in which Church and State were implicated; but if he had been strongly pressed, it seems that he would have been found to be an ultramontane rather than a gallican.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
17  The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY
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