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Les Miserables
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- Moreover, this appellation pleased him.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards the lower classes.†
Chpt 1.1
- He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces.†
Chpt 1.1
- Moreover, he made no pretensions to botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against Linnaeus.†
Chpt 1.1
- Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end would prove her own.†
Chpt 1.1
- I abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage; moreover, I am dying.†
Chpt 1.1
- Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs from our own.†
Chpt 1.1
- Moreover, he drew from good works that amount of satisfaction which suffices to the conscience, and which whispers to a man, "Thou art with God!"†
Chpt 1.1
- It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile.†
Chpt 1.2
- Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about unbuckling one of the straps.†
Chpt 1.2
- The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure each other by making things happen.†
Chpt 1.2
- Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:— "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will permit, I will go and tell Paulin Musebois, the locksmith, to come and replace the ancient locks on the doors; we have them, and it is only the work of a moment; for I say that nothing is more terrible than a door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu!†
Chpt 1.2
- Moreover, the cat so despised by Count Angles possessed the esteem of the republics of old.†
Chpt 1.3
- Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to theirs.†
Chpt 1.4
- Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice.†
Chpt 1.5
- Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct is that it can become confused, thrown off the track, and defeated.†
Chpt 1.5
- Why does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a "whole stationer's shop full of it?" etc. There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.†
Chpt 1.5
- Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of the officers' cafe.†
Chpt 1.5
- Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me.†
Chpt 1.6
- Of course, we do not here pretend to furnish a history of the battle of Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our subject; this history, moreover, has been finished, and finished in a masterly manner, from one point of view by Napoleon, and from another point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.†
Chpt 2.1
- He had, moreover, been very much delayed.†
Chpt 2.1
- Moreover, he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was extinguished.†
Chpt 2.1
- Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history.†
Chpt 2.1
- At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams like Virgil in the fatal plains of Philippi, the hallucination of the catastrophe takes possession of him.†
Chpt 2.1
- It appears that previous to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in his business.†
Chpt 2.2
- Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one possesses!†
Chpt 2.2
- And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of the military vessel of forty years ago, of the simple sailing-vessel; steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy which is called a war vessel.†
Chpt 2.2
- Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well.†
Chpt 2.4
- Moreover,—and this is a remark to which we shall frequently have occasion to recur,—she had grown used, without being herself aware of it, to the peculiarities of this good BOOK FIFTH.†
Chpt 2.5
- Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish aspect of a Spanish town.†
Chpt 2.5
- Moreover, all the windows of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic windows in the roof.†
Chpt 2.5
- And then, moreover, you it was who placed me here.†
Chpt 2.5
- M. Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris.†
Chpt 2.5
- Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs.†
Chpt 2.5
- Moreover, M. de Rohan, quite unknown to himself, was an object of attention to the school-girls.†
Chpt 2.6
- She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, "singing like a cracked pot," says the letter which we have already quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the whole convent, and for that reason adored.†
Chpt 2.6
- Moreover, they lavished a thousand cares on their scholars.†
Chpt 2.6
- All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris.†
Chpt 2.6
- Moreover, when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, it becomes bad for the very reasons which rendered it salutary in its period of purity, because it still continues to set the example.†
Chpt 2.7
- Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,—a minute which will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,— at this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little elevated, among so many mortals whose morality consists in enjoyment, and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us.†
Chpt 2.7
- Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden.†
Chpt 2.8
- Moreover, Fauchelevent was in a dilemma.†
Chpt 2.8
- Moreover, a coffin containing a living being,—that convict's expedient,— is also an imperial expedient.†
Chpt 2.8
- Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed.†
Chpt 2.8
- Moreover, no one guards a secret like a child.†
Chpt 2.8
- Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and then, she would not have said anything in any case.†
Chpt 2.8
- Moreover, it was well for Jean Valjean that he kept close and did not stir out.†
Chpt 2.8
- God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, to uphold and complete the Bishop's work in Jean Valjean.†
Chpt 2.8
- This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms.†
Chpt 3.1
- Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief nor conspired.†
Chpt 3.3
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