1 Fantine mingled in the group, and began to laugh with the rest at the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for respectable people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS 2 Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the latter had escaped.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—TREASURE TROVE 3 These hideous and delicate products of wonderful art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry.
4 The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title of Statesmen; so that this word, statesmen, has ended by becoming somewhat of a slang word.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED 5 Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their presence.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 6 The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in the Temple, and Babet was really the only person who spoke it in all its purity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 7 Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of slang.
8 There is the slang of the affected lady as well as of the precieuses.
9 for the Due de Modena, speaks slang.
10 The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and turnip, said Opoponach, perfroschinum, reptitalmus, dracatholicum, angelorum, postmegorum, talked slang.
11 de Montmorency as "a bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang.
12 Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang.
13 But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word slang is an extension which every one will not admit.
14 For our part, we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang.
15 To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.