1 Yes, sir; and, as he said, it was an ancient name.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 2 The road which the carriage now traversed was the ancient Appian Way, and bordered with tombs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 3 I had often seen my noble patron annotating ancient volumes, and eagerly searching amongst dusty family manuscripts.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 4 As for my wife, I must tell you, she lowered herself by marrying me, for she belongs to one of the most ancient families in France.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit. 5 Dantes redoubled his efforts; he seemed like one of the ancient Titans, who uprooted the mountains to hurl against the father of the gods.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 6 He is a perfect nobleman, very polite, modest, and agreeable, such as may be found constantly in Italy, descendants of very ancient families.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks. 7 The count inquired whether any of the ancient jailers were still there; but they had all been pensioned, or had passed on to some other employment.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 113. The Past. 8 Dantes, as we have said, had traced the marks along the rocks, and he had noticed that they led to a small creek, which was hidden like the bath of some ancient nymph.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 9 Franz had so managed his route, that during the ride to the Colosseum they passed not a single ancient ruin, so that no preliminary impression interfered to mitigate the colossal proportions of the gigantic building they came to admire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 10 made but a faint attempt to parry this unexpected blow; the monarchy he had scarcely reconstructed tottered on its precarious foundation, and at a sign from the emperor the incongruous structure of ancient prejudices and new ideas fell to the ground.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days. 11 Tall and well proportioned as an ancient gladiator, and muscular as a Spartan, he walked for a quarter of an hour without knowing where to direct his steps, actuated by the sole idea of getting away from the spot where if he lingered he knew that he would surely be taken.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. 12 The chairs were of ancient workmanship and materials; over the doors were painted sketches of shepherds and shepherdesses, after the style and manner of Boucher; and at each side pretty medallions in crayons, harmonizing well with the furnishings of this charming apartment, the only one throughout the great mansion in which any distinctive taste prevailed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 13 The man he sacrificed to his ambition, that innocent victim immolated on the altar of his father's faults, appeared to him pale and threatening, leading his affianced bride by the hand, and bringing with him remorse, not such as the ancients figured, furious and terrible, but that slow and consuming agony whose pangs are intensified from hour to hour up to the very moment of death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 9. The Evening of the Betrothal. 14 Dantes was a man of great simplicity of thought, and without education; he could not, therefore, in the solitude of his dungeon, traverse in mental vision the history of the ages, bring to life the nations that had perished, and rebuild the ancient cities so vast and stupendous in the light of the imagination, and that pass before the eye glowing with celestial colors in Martin's Babylonian pictures.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.