1 The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 2 Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 3 There had taken place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto.
4 This affirmation appeared to dispel all doubts with regard to the baldric.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 5 It came from the bushes--a megaphontic, anonymous, loud-speaking affirmation.
6 He saluted, and made a slight movement of the head in affirmation.
7 We entered the farm-house by the kitchen way, to ascertain whether Mr. Heathcliff were really absent: because I put slight faith in his own affirmation.
8 She had never heard him speak with such energy of affirmation.
9 It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions.
10 I affirm he will meet fairly every honourable challenge.
11 Thank you for your good word, Fanny, but it is more than I would affirm myself.
12 No; I can't forget him, though I am not prepared to affirm the fellow was exactly worth the life we lost in getting to him.
13 This is the reason why I affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man.
14 We might almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a peasant's head.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED 15 Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellations.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS