1 He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the industries of other arrondissements.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 2 had had for its special industry the imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ... 3 This industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw material, which reacted on the manufacture.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ... 4 About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the grand events of small districts had taken place.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS ... 5 They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 6 Whether it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an industrious man, should have lacked bread.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 7 They have, in the country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF ... 8 Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 9 He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process called double pickings.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 10 He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, by dint of induction, he had guessed who the man was whom he had encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN ... 11 The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which they entitle their industry and their liberty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ... 12 This sou piece was one of those marvels of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than instruments of escape.
13 It was thus that he had, when occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frevent, and the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 14 All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I—THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION