1 He lived by robbery with violence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ... 2 A certain state of violence pleases him.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING ... 3 The snow had redoubled in violence, and filled the air.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES 4 The rain redoubled in violence; the thunder rolled while the Emperor was speaking.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 5 You will die by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England will fall.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 6 Jean Valjean seized two more coins of five francs each with violence, and gave them to the priest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS 7 The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it contained all the violence of voluptuousness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ... 8 The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the back of the colossus amid claps of thunder.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 9 A light troubled by smoke, progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this tender and serious spirit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 10 She clasped her hands with an expression which contained all that is possible to prayer in the way of violence and tenderness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY 11 Thenardier no longer looked like himself; in the course of a few moments his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning sweetness.
12 During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was as good as abolished, and the erection of a scaffold was a violence committed against the King.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LOUIS PHILIPPE 13 It was France who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN ... 14 On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, one thing only, innocence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED 15 On leaving the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway on the person of a little Savoyard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP 16 Jean Valjean did violence to his habits, and took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG 17 Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority without violence, without any direct action on his part, by virtue of a revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orleans, exercised no personal initiative.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.