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1  Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
2  Javert watched the quarter for more than a month.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
3  England had him guarded by Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
4  His guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below with a sort of religion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE ...
5  From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, and watched their play with a melancholy air.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
6  Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence without suspecting that he was watched.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
7  When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
8  The mayor of the town came to receive him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his ass, with scandalized eyes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
9  At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the rest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
10  On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD ...
11  He watched the horizon grow white; he stared at all the chilly figures of a winter's dawn as they passed before his eyes, but without seeing them.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
12  Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his melon patch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A ...
13  Thus, even when believing him to be in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, to such a degree that they no longer watched over him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
14  He had watched him, both on his own account, for the pleasure of the thing, and through instinct, and had spied upon him as though he had been paid for so doing.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
15  Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read it two or three times.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR
16  While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the clothing and the blankets, questioning the sick mother kindly, and the little injured girl tenderly, he watched her every movement, he sought to catch her words.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
17  It is from this place, that I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and no other way of seeing his child, because he was prevented by family arrangements.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO ...
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