The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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a very audaciously attired young girl

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This brown-skinned, broad-shouldered priest, hitherto condemned to the austere virginity of the cloister, was quivering and boiling in the presence of this night scene of love and voluptuousness.

52 uses

the house, which is simple and thoroughly bourgeois

12 uses

the capricious regulations regarding the public highways

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Down to that day, he had known only humiliation, disdain for his condition, disgust for his person.

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He was a dissembling prince, but one who understood far better how to hide his troubles than his joys.

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A true eclectic, as it would be expressed nowadays, Gringoire was one of those firm and lofty, moderate and calm spirits, which always know how to bear themselves amid all circumstances (~stare in dimidio rerum~), and who are full of reason and of liberal philosophy, while still setting store by cardinals.

98 uses

That edifice is colossal.

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the impetuous gusts of the north wind do not make the traveler lay aside his cloak;

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It was this fixed idea which returned incessantly, which tortured him, which ate into his brain,

152 uses

I see that you agree with Monsieur de Boucicaut.

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52 uses

The young girl had recognized the spiteful recluse.

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All at once his deep-set eye assumed so sagacious and penetrating an expression, that Gringoire felt himself, so to speak, searched to the bottom of the soul by that glance.

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all his tribe, who hold her in singular veneration...

2 meanings, 6 uses