1 Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 2 The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER V—PREPARATIONS 3 When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof from swagger and from affected airs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE ... 4 Certain convicts who were forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force and skill combined.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 5 This fragment of the vaulting, partly submerged, but solid, was a veritable inclined plane, and, once on this plane, he was safe.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS 6 There existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, like Fannicot, others of the pen, like Henri Fonfrede.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER 7 One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his mind.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 8 This is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is Progress.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE ... 9 But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable alluvial deposit.
10 The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and the Little Convent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT 11 This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the Jondrette hovel in the morning, and had evidently been brought thither in the afternoon, during Marius' absence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE 12 The veritable slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness.
13 In civilization, such as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 14 A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND