1 Those are dangers from without, petty dangers.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE 2 The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 3 He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, combats the inexhaustible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS 4 And then, there still remained some petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting the bills for them, etc.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE 5 He flung in the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed tradesmen.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 6 Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur of its own.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT 7 There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic dramas.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE 8 His name was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study of the Middle Ages.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 9 For many great deeds are performed in petty combats.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT 10 It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—QUADRIFRONS 11 Only, in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 12 This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and petty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER 13 Besides, I long ago determined to put an end to all these petty intrigues of policy and love.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL 14 The nobles themselves, each fortified within his own castle, and playing the petty sovereign over his own dominions, were the leaders of bands scarce less lawless and oppressive than those of the avowed depredators.
15 But his petty vanity was sufficiently gratified by receiving this homage at the hands of his immediate attendants, and of the Saxons who approached him.