1 At this epoch, Marius was twenty years of age.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 2 At that age, faces disclose everything on the spot.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS 3 They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 4 It is to be noted that the age of periphrase in verse was the age of crudities in prose.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—LUC-ESPRIT 5 He had only retired to the Marais when he quitted society, long after attaining the age of eighty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING 6 le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 7 People were undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, through the movement of the age.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 8 Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 9 He was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 10 A child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen years of age and did not know where he was to sleep, he was sent to the galleys.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY 11 This child, who had been all joy and light on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is still more contrary to his age, grave.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 12 He had a daughter over fifty years of age, and unmarried, whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he would have liked to whip.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 13 At the age when youth swells the heart with imperial pride, he dropped his eyes more than once on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant blushes of wretchedness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 14 He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, dignified, honest, and lofty, in a bourgeois fashion; and his great age added to it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON 15 Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to hours of pallor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 16 He was a peculiar old man, and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather haughty bourgeois of the eighteenth century, who wore his good, old bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH 17 He was in accord neither with his grandfather nor with his friends; daring in the eyes of the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and on the side of youth.
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