1 She did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN 2 She likewise accepted her proposal, and engaged all the passengers, one after the other, to relate their adventures; and then both she and Candide allowed that the old woman was in the right.
3 What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen.
4 One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lo, rarely allowed an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she designated as "the expectations" of her three sons.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 5 Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed himself to drop into his chair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP 6 Night came, death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed themselves to be enveloped therein.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—THE LAST SQUARE 7 Turenne was so good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and blood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT 8 On arriving on a level with the top, a gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to be seen: he was not a young man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 9 It was high time; one minute more, and the exhausted and despairing man would have allowed himself to fall into the abyss.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 10 He allowed it to be thought that he was an educated man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 11 Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair of stockings for five francs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 12 Madame Thenardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was her wont.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 13 When the man and Cosette had taken their departure, Thenardier allowed a full quarter of an hour to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred francs.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 14 Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS 15 She shut herself up, which her rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to contemplate it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE