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1  Morrel passed his hand over his brow; it seemed to him a dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
2  When Franz returned to himself, he seemed still to be in a dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
3  She dreamed Don Carlos had returned to Spain; she believes in dreams.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects.
4  Franz rubbed his eyes in order to assure himself that this was not a dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
5  Go on," said the abbe; "it seems as if I were listening to the story of a dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
6  "Confess you have dreamed this, and let us sit down to breakfast," continued Beauchamp.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
7  He advanced several paces towards the point whence the light came, and to all the excitement of his dream succeeded the calmness of reality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
8  They sailed; Edmond was again cleaving the azure sea which had been the first horizon of his youth, and which he had so often dreamed of in prison.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
9  You had dreamed that a ship had entered the harbor at Havre, that this ship brought news that a payment we had looked upon as lost was going to be made.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 65. A Conjugal Scene.
10  Nature subdued must yield in the combat, the dream must succeed to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, then the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
11  Finally ten months and a half had gone by and no favorable change had taken place, and Dantes began to fancy the inspector's visit but a dream, an illusion of the brain.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
12  It seemed to Franz that he closed his eyes, and in a last look about him saw the vision of modesty completely veiled; and then followed a dream of passion like that promised by the Prophet to the elect.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
13  Morcerf then, with that delighted philosophy which believes that nothing is impossible to a full purse or well-lined pocketbook, supped, went to bed, slept soundly, and dreamed he was racing all over Rome at Carnival time in a coach with six horses.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
14  Dantes made no resistance; he was like a man in a dream: he saw soldiers drawn up on the embankment; he knew vaguely that he was ascending a flight of steps; he was conscious that he passed through a door, and that the door closed behind him; but all this indistinctly as through a mist.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
15  He was for some time without reflection or thought for the divine charm which is in the things of nature, specially after a fantastic dream; then gradually this view of the outer world, so calm, so pure, so grand, reminded him of the illusiveness of his vision, and once more awakened memory.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
16  The more he strove against this unhallowed passion the more his senses yielded to its thrall, and at length, weary of a struggle that taxed his very soul, he gave way and sank back breathless and exhausted beneath the kisses of these marble goddesses, and the enchantment of his marvellous dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
17  Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding-party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantes, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
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