1 "I am all attention," said the abbe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 2 True, this story has diverted our attention from them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 28. The Prison Register. 3 A small white cloud, which had attracted Dantes' attention, crowned the summit of the bastion of the Chateau d'If.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 4 The first person to attract the attention of Dantes, as he landed on the Canebiere, was one of the crew belonging to the Pharaon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 5 This would have been a favorable occasion to secure his dinner; but Dantes feared lest the report of his gun should attract attention.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 6 Dantes' whole attention was riveted on a man who could thus forget his own misfortunes while occupying himself with the destinies of others.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 7 Edmond then resolved to try Jacopo, and offered him in return for his attention a share of his prize-money, but Jacopo refused it indignantly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 8 After some time Cucumetto became the object of universal attention; the most extraordinary traits of ferocious daring and brutality were related of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 9 Keeping along the shore, and examining the smallest object with serious attention, he thought he could trace, on certain rocks, marks made by the hand of man.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 10 Doubtless Signor Pastrini found this pleasantry compromising, for he only answered half the question, and then he spoke to Franz, as the only one likely to listen with attention.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 11 Dantes listened with admiring attention to all he said; some of his remarks corresponded with what he already knew, or applied to the sort of knowledge his nautical life had enabled him to acquire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 12 The person whose mysterious arrival had attracted the attention of Franz stood in a kind of half-light, that rendered it impossible to distinguish his features, although his dress was easily made out.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 13 And his appearance had nothing extraordinary in it; but the hesitation with which he proceeded, stopping and listening with anxious attention at every step he took, convinced Franz that he expected the arrival of some person.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 14 But as I cannot, and you will not, quit this place, it becomes necessary to fill up the excavation beneath the soldier's gallery; he might, by chance, hear the hollow sound of his footsteps, and call the attention of his officer to the circumstance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 15 Dantes examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 16 He removed his seat into a corner of the room, where he himself would be in deep shadow, while the light would be fully thrown on the narrator; then, with head bent down and hands clasped, or rather clinched together, he prepared to give his whole attention to Caderousse, who seated himself on the little stool, exactly opposite to him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 17 Fourteen years had changed the worthy merchant, who, in his thirty-sixth year at the opening of this history, was now in his fiftieth; his hair had turned white, time and sorrow had ploughed deep furrows on his brow, and his look, once so firm and penetrating, was now irresolute and wandering, as if he feared being forced to fix his attention on some particular thought or person.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son. Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.