1 We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME 2 Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 3 You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine myself to combating your arguments.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 4 We will confine ourselves to saying that the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE 5 I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the question of the gentleman.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT... 6 Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars.
7 Let us confine ourselves here to this sketch.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 8 We confine ourselves to indicating them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 9 It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can extinguish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 10 Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone in his wine-shop, they also ate there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 11 Let the abandoned allow themselves to be abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, when they do retreat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 12 We will confine ourselves to noting an incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 13 Nay," said the Priest, laughing, "it is only in our abbey that we confine ourselves to the 'lac dulce' or the 'lac acidum' either.
14 My object is to confine it to Mrs. Rushworth and the Grants.
15 She confined herself, or tried to confine herself, to the simple, indubitable family misery which must envelop all, if it were indeed a matter of certified guilt and public exposure.