WRETCH in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - wretch in Les Misérables 1
1  He's some frightfully poor wretch.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S ...
2  Geborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  "I shall be able to stop that wretch whenever I please," he thought.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII—MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS
4  On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the Bishop was still there.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor wretch" seemed difficult to her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—THENARDIER AND HIS MANOEUVRES
6  More than one passer-by lay with outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a pool of blood.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND ...
7  A poor wretch on returning to his attic would find that his door had been opened, sometimes even forced, during his absence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
8  Thenardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself lost.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT
9  I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is true that I robbed Little Gervais; they were right in telling you that Jean Valjean was a very vicious wretch.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
10  An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of the fourth line, in the north angle of the courtyard.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
11  Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, and flung it over the little barricade into the Rue Mondetour.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A ...
12  This wretch had succeeded in escaping the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded in getting himself appointed mayor of one of our small northern towns; in this town he had established a considerable commerce.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430
13  Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young shepherd, who served the member of the Convention in his hovel, had come in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
14  It also happened occasionally that he encountered some poor wretch asking alms; then he looked behind him to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver coin, and walked rapidly away.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
15  The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means sometimes without tools, sometimes with a common wooden-handled knife, to saw a sou into two thin plates, to hollow out these plates without affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou in such a manner that the plates will adhere again.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
16  Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
17  The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by that innocent being.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
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.