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1  "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
2  "Let me climb up, m'sieu le gendarme," said the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE ...
3  Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to climb.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
4  He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
5  The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
6  Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
7  He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found himself in the garden.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
8  All you've got to do is to climb over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
9  To climb a vertical surface, and to find points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to Jean Valjean.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
10  This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen feet.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
11  Another, in order to get a look at Debacker as he passed, and being too small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE ...
12  To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
13  He paid what was asked, left the tilbury with the wheelwright to be repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been travelling since morning.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
14  The wretched man tries to sit down, to lie down, to climb; every movement that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he feels that he is being swallowed up; he shrieks, implores, cries to the clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
15  Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, in order to embrace him, and to question him while so doing, and to find out where he had been.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
16  At last, he was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands of his comrades.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ...
17  They fabricate systems, they recast society, they demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as these women climb into their carts.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE
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