1. Passing through a breach in
the ramparts he re-entered the town.
(Hugo, 79)
2. But it was the custom of
the house, when there was a guest, to set out the full set of silver cutlery
for six persons, an innocent and childlike display of elegance, in that simple
and austere household, which graced
its poverty with dignity. (Hugo, 88)
3. At the moment when Jean
Valjean stopped by the bed the clouds were torn asunder as though by a deliberate act, and moonlight, flooding through
the tall window, fell upon the bishop's face. (Hugo, 107)
4. Beset by these intimations, he reeled like a drunken
man: but as haggard-eyed, he went on his way, had he any clearer notion of what
must be the outcome for him of that episode in Digne? (Hugo, 116)
5. There was a seed of cruelty
in the woman and blackguardism in the man, and both were highly susceptible to
the encroachments of evil. (Hugo, 150)
6. It was also noted that
whenever a vagrant boy appeared in
the town looking for chimneys to sweep, the mayor sent for him, asked his name
and gave him money. (Hugo, 163)
7. But he noted that there
were two classes of men whom society keeps inexorably
at arm’s length- those who prey upon it, and those who protect it. (Hugo, 165)
8. The realities of the soul
are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable. (Hugo, 213)
9. Upright, arrogant and resplendent, he stood like the
embodiment in the clear sky of the superhuman ferocity of the destroying angel,
and the deed he was performing seemed to invest his clenched fist with the gleam
of a fiery sword. (Hugo, 267)
10. At about midnight a man
prowled, or better, clambered, near
the sunken lane of Ohain. (Hugo, 322)
11. Shadows and trees form two
awe-inspiring layers in which a chimerical
reality resides. (Hugo, 350)
12. After prison, a convent:
from being an inmate of the one he had become an observer of the other, and he scrupulously compared them in his mind.
(Hugo, 488)
13. On the one side a stench,
and on the other an ineffable
perfume. (Hugo, 489)
14. But at the sight of you
they remember that they have a business to transact
and a living to earn [...]. (Hugo, 499)
15. No other city has held
this dominance which sometimes derides what it subjugates. (Hugo, 506)
16. A woman may be elderly,
prudish, devout and an aunt, but it is still pleasant to have a lancer walk into one’s sitting room. (Hugo,
546)
17. […] within this darkness
man seizes upon the weakness of the woman and the child and forces them into ignominy. (Hugo, 639)
18. […] Monsieur Leblac
vanished in the confusion of bodies like a boar under a baying pack of hounds. (Hugo, 686)
19. A party consisting of sergents de ville armed with swords and
policemen with truncheons entered
the garret. (Hugo, 698)
20. […] it was like a mask of decrepitude plucked out of the darkness
by a beam of light. (Hugo, 700)
21. Proper distribution does
not imply an equal share but an equitable
share. (Hugo, 722)
22. Two ragged pedestrians
exchanged remarks reminiscent of the
jacquerie […]. (Hugo, 728)
23. There were other portents. (Hugo, 729)
24. Stick to your absinthe. (Hugo, 736)
25. This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, and the girl was Cosette. (Hugo,
757)
26. […] vegetation in a close
and deep embrace had celebrated and performed, under the satisfied eye of the
Creator, the holy mystery of its consanguinity,
a symbol of human fraternity in that enclosure some three hundred feet square. (Hugo,
762)
27, 28. […] discourse, admonition, rather patronizing extenuation which, because it is a
mingling of blame and excess, supposes itself to be wisdom and is often no more
than sophistry. (Hugo, 884)
29. The riots threw a garish but splendid light on what is
most particular to the character of Paris- hot-blooded devotion and tempestuous
gaiety […]. (Hugo, 885)
30. Thus it is that if, as
Lafayette said, insurrection is the most sacred of duties, sporadic revolt may be the most disastrous of blunders. (Hugo, 887)
31. Outraged convictions,
embittered enthusiasms, hot indignation,[…], a hankering after the unexpected, […]- such are the elements of a
revolt. (Hugo, 883)
32. I haven’t a sound pair of
shoes and she hasn’t a chemise to her
back, but no matter. (Hugo, 872)
33. The ailment grew worse, and the doctor prescribed a very expensive
medicine. (Hugo, 882)
34. Arriving on the appointed
evening, he noted that his ragged cravat,
his rusty, old-fashioned jacket and his shoes, which had been polished with
white of egg, greatly astonished the footmen. (Hugo, 881)
35. The pawnbroker had sold
the plates of his Flora after thirteen months, and a tinker had made them into saucepans. (Hugo, 880)
36. Finally he sat down on the
steps, his heart swelling with tenderness and resolve. (Hugo, 879)
37. He was seated near the
table and the light of the two candles, disclosing the dilapidated state of his attire, caused Monsieur Gillenormand to survey
him with astonishment. (Hugo, 873)
38. The rest was mere skirmishing: and the proof that this
was the real centre lay in the fact that thus far no fighting had gone on
there. (Hugo, 900)
39. There was apprehension
everywhere, a tremulousness unusual
to Paris. (Hugo, 903)
40. This was eaten by the
light of a tallow candle or a lamp of the Louis XVI period on the tables with
nailed coverings of waxed muslin in
lieu of tablecloths. (Hugo, 917)
41. He contrived to pass
through the crowd and the army bivouacs,
dodging sentries and patrols. (Hugo, 944)
42. His seeming ubiquity acted as a kind of goad; there
was no pausing when he went by. (Hugo, 932)
43. Who was the idiot that said that man was biped without a quill? (Hugo, 920)
44. Creation itself is bankrupt, and that is why I’m a
malcontent. (Hugo, 922)
45. A party burst into a curio-shop in the Rue des
Vieilles- Haudriettes and helped themselves to scimitars and other Turkish weapons. (Hugo, 897)
46. The country might lament, but humanity would applaud. (Hugo, 950)
47. On the door of the restaurant were the words,
witten in chalk by Courfeyrac: ‘Revel
if you can and eat if you dare’. (Hugo, 919)
48. Fettered
words are terrible words. (Hugo, 888)
49. A miasma
arises from the blunted consciences reflecting the mind of the master […]. (Hugo,
889)
50. Bathed in the dazzling June sunshine, it had the
look of a sepulchre. (Hugo, 991)
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