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1  , the Huguenot king, with the material for an oath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
2  He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
3  Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, oaths, and songs exploded.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
4  They made the initiated take oaths to render service to himself as well as to the fathers of families.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
5  It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath to others may not be received in law.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
6  But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses seem to require, something of the notary had lingered in him.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ...
7  At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his head and looked the crowd in the face.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
8  Thenardier had that peculiar rectilinear something about his gestures which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign of the cross, the seminary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
9  Every year, she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-Francois gave it to Monseigneur Saint-Julien, Monseigneur Saint-Julien gave it to Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur Saint-Procopius, etc."
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
10  When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER