1 But now the habit has been acquired.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER 2 I am in the habit of being polite to every one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 The novices wear the same habit, but all in white.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 4 It was very dark, but she was in the habit of coming to this spring.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 5 Madeleine was in the habit of almost never entering the women's workroom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 6 In the early days the nuns were in the habit of lending them their black garments.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES 7 As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her knees one against the other.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 8 This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO ... 9 He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty years ago, when I was adjutant-guard of convicts at Toulon.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 10 Near Saint-Medard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of crouching on the brink of a public well which had been condemned, and on whom Jean Valjean was fond of bestowing charity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND ... 11 This holy woman, too poor to wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at her death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT 12 Let us say it simply, it was not he who stole; it was not the man; it was the beast, who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, while the intelligence was struggling amid so many novel and hitherto unheard-of thoughts besetting it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 13 The district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid attitude, evidently deliberate, which denoted not imbecility, but craft, skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its nakedness the "profound perversity" of this man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF ... 14 Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had been his wish to wait until the horse batteries could move and gallop freely.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 15 It is remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine happiness and a real recreation for the scholars.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES 16 In order to get a close look at this fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing the spy under cover of prayer.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT 17 Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except an increase.
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