1 His suppleness even exceeded his strength.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 2 Merit consists in working according to one's strength.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE 3 Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. 4 He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, combats the inexhaustible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 5 She was in a state of such violent excitement that her strength was trebled.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE 6 A man's whole strength is required to successfully carry out these singular ascents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS 7 He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 8 One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a physical strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the galleys.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR 9 They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their establishment as an element of strength.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 10 Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his dignity of soul than from the failing of his strength, "I have passed my life in meditation, study, and contemplation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 11 The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 12 The little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER 13 Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of the strength to hold it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—END OF THE BRIGAND 14 The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white teeth, his pure breath, will always arouse the envy of an aged emperor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP 15 Night descends; he has been swimming for hours; his strength is exhausted; that ship, that distant thing in which there were men, has vanished; he is alone in the formidable twilight gulf; he sinks, he stiffens himself, he twists himself; he feels under him the monstrous billows of the invisible; he shouts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 16 At last, he was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands of his comrades.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 17 In the meantime, the unfortunate topman was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, but his exhaustion was visible in every limb; his arms were contracted in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served but to augment the oscillations of the foot-rope; he did not shout, for fear of exhausting his strength.
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