1 If you glance at a woman, you will receive a blow.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ... 2 The old woman went away, the old man remained alone.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ... 3 The words heady woman were invented for the Parisienne.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 4 The windows had short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 5 You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 6 No tongue can express all that lay in that word, woman, thus pronounced by that child.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 7 Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman would have recognized the fact that she had no mother.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 8 To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French Revolution, they added the rights of woman and the rights of the child.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 9 He had never known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he understood instinctively, that it was something terrible.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 10 In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable apple-tree.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN ... 11 It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in ignorance of her love.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN 12 This woman in turn transmitted the note to another woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected by the police, though not yet arrested.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE ... 13 There is nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE 14 The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided Jean Valjean to take her with him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET 15 She at once acquired the whole science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so dangerous.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 16 She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR 17 A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, exactly at the point where the gap which he was meditating would have been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman was standing in front of him.
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