1 That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 2 Moreover, as it is indispensable that the Revolution should be everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, dominated by a bourgeois.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 3 Marius occupied in the Gorbeau house, for an annual sum of thirty francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only the most indispensable articles of furniture.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR 4 If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is indispensable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 5 Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 6 His bookcase with glass doors was the only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly indispensable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF 7 It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should prove itself a revolution or a skirmish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS 8 So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA 9 Nevertheless, it was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself.
10 Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict with legal order.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS... 11 Prudence, monsieur, is a virtue sufficiently useless to Musketeers, I know, but indispensable to churchmen; and as I am only a Musketeer provisionally, I hold it good to be prudent.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS 12 Oh, yes; that is indispensable.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME 13 She had, in short, failed to make herself indispensable; or rather, her attempt to do so had been thwarted by an influence stronger than any she could exert.
14 It is only indispensable with an inveterate running whale; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long lance is accurately darted from a violently rocking, jerking boat, under extreme headway.
15 Cora betrayed a disposition to support her sister, and the sacred song proceeded, after the indispensable preliminaries of the pitchpipe, and the tune had been duly attended to by the methodical David.