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1  This transformation took place last night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
2  Paris has been transformed since he quitted it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
3  It is thus that men are transformed into angels.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
4  It was more than a transformation; it was a transfiguration.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
5  Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed into Champmathieu.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
6  Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
7  This is the will of that mysterious creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
8  People were undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, through the movement of the age.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
9  However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique air, was tending even then to transformation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
10  They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they transform them into oysters and swallow them.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH
11  It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste mysteries.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
12  The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into a kitchen and cellar.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
13  Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
14  He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a star.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
15  Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be transformed, and from being hostile to social progress, it will become favorable to it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS
16  The frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all in their extremest depths, and ignorance, converted into dulness, was the equal of intelligence converted into despair.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG