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1  Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
2  There was a hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
3  In the winter she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
4  There are but few passers-by on that boulevard, particularly in the winter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S ...
5  A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
6  The beginning of the winter had been mild; there had been neither snow nor frost up to that time.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
7  Her entire clothing was but a rag which would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
8  Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
9  Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his face like a flash from heaven in the winter.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF ...
10  The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thenardier did not lose them from sight, although he kept at a good distance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS ...
11  The grave-diggers being thus bound to service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this cemetery, they were subjected to a special discipline.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
12  This took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing at the moment.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
13  Jean Valjean found himself in a sort of garden which was very vast and of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to be looked at in winter and at night.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
14  This road was, and still is, a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, sometimes a dozen feet in depth, and whose banks, being too steep, crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving rains.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
15  Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly becomes frightful.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU