1 This conflict lasted two hours.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 2 The conflict on the plateau continued.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 3 This conflict of right and fact has been going on ever since the origin of society.
4 She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of inward conflict.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 5 To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.
6 It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII—M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY 7 It was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy transport of souls and courage, a hurricane of lightning swords.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN 8 The violent conflict which had been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; and every moment he encountered some new phase of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES ... 9 In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two men had appeared to her like two giants; the one spoke like her demon, the other like her good angel.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 10 There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 11 From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 12 A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON 13 The discussion concerned one of the questions of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict between the Minister of War and "the citizen's militia," on the subject of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE SUBSTITUTE 14 The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of stones was continued with gun-shots.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 15 Jomini divides the battle of Waterloo into four moments; Muffling cuts it up into three changes; Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, seized with his haughty glance the characteristic outlines of that catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 16 Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful commotions which were formerly called jacqueries, beside which purely political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of discomfort against comfort.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS 17 There exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful conflict, where, now cunning, now violent, unhealthy and ferocious at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks through vice, and with club-blows through crime.
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