1 And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 2 She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 3 Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE 4 She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, but winter came again.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 5 The mayor had given her fifty francs because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON ... 6 Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 7 The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 8 Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed the conductor, and returned, leading the vehicle and the horses by the bridle.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 9 One day, there was brought to him in a basket, as though it had been a basket of oysters, a stout, newly born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months previously, attributed to him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN 10 Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not seen the two delinquents.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER