All 14 Uses of

sagacious

in

Les Miserables

In the preceding year, Wellington, with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of a great battle.†
Chpt 2.1

sagacity = wisdom

With the sad and innocent sagacity of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from that doll.†
Chpt 2.3

It was like an intuition; he comprehended it with his clear and sagacious promptitude.†
Chpt 2.3

sagacious = wise

And he pursued his road, walking rapidly straight ahead, and with almost an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of partridges.†
Chpt 2.3

sagacity = wisdom

M. Gillenormand admired his own discernment in all things, and declared that he was extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in BOOK SECOND.†
Chpt 3.2

sagacious = wise

Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is an indication of a sagacious mind.†
Chpt 3.4

While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of the room a person whom he had not seen before.†
Chpt 3.8

dignity, a disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns everything to success, it admits of ruse and does not absolutely repudiate baseness, but which has this valuable side, that it preserves politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, t†
Chpt 4.1

The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.†
Chpt 4.1

etc. Gavroche balanced on his heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip.†
Chpt 4.12

sagacity = wisdom

When one has passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, professional probity, the austerities of situation, incorruptible robes all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which befits it.†
Chpt 5.2

Between these four ways, a less sagacious man would have remained undecided.
Chpt 5.3 *

sagacious = wise

Thenardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring to recognize another man.†
Chpt 5.3

His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the man of prey reappeared.†
Chpt 5.9

Definition:

wise -- especially through long experience and thoughtfulness