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1  The little fellow will grow up.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—HE MAY BE OF USE
2  Then you grow strong, and you laugh.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
3  His revery continued to grow clearer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
4  bad, and yet I grow thinner every day.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
5  Fauchelevent had seen this simple workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
6  The local deputy, who nosed out all rivalry everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
7  The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to fail, but his brain grow weary.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
8  His hair was closely cut, yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to have been cut for some time.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
9  His ideas began to grow confused once more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
10  This ideal was realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
11  He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, but without seeing them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
12  The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no further than six inches beyond it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
13  In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
14  When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they escape because of their smallness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
15  By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow less and vanish.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
16  Later on, when her hair, arranged in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magaera began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thenardier was nothing but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
17  When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
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