1 A few words sufficed for a mutual understanding between the two officers of the law.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 59. The Will. 2 Pray observe, that I too much respect the laws of hospitality to ask your name or title.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 3 Sometimes I amuse myself by delivering some bandit or criminal from the bonds of the law.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 4 Benedetto was thus forever condemned in public opinion before the sentence of the law could be pronounced.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 110. The Indictment. 5 In the eyes of many, Benedetto appeared, if not a victim to, at least an instance of, the fallibility of the law.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 109. The Assizes. 6 You mistake, Fernand; it is not a law, but merely a custom, and, I pray of you, do not cite this custom in your favor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 7 The brigadier, calm and dignified as the law he represented, passed through the crowd, without answering the thousand questions addressed to him, and re-entered the hotel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. 8 Besides, the provident law has deprived you of the power to disinherit me, at least entirely, as it has also of the power to compel me to marry Monsieur This or Monsieur That.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter. 9 The bandit's laws are positive; a young girl belongs first to him who carries her off, then the rest draw lots for her, and she is abandoned to their brutality until death relieves her sufferings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 10 But," said Franz to the count, "with this theory, which renders you at once judge and executioner of your own cause, it would be difficult to adopt a course that would forever prevent your falling under the power of the law.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata. 11 But as this dream cannot be realized, since Mademoiselle Danglars must become my lawful wife, live perpetually with me, sing to me, compose verses and music within ten paces of me, and that for my whole life, it frightens me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 68. A Summer Ball. 12 Noirtier, who caused himself to be carried to his granddaughter's room, and watched her with his paternal tenderness; Villefort also, on his return from the law courts, frequently passed an hour or two with his father and child.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 100. The Apparition. 13 He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 14 In proof of this we have signed this paper to establish the truth of the facts, lest the moment should arrive when either of the actors in this terrible scene should be accused of premeditated murder or of infringement of the laws of honor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement. 15 Partly to drown the recollections of the past that haunted me, partly to supply the wants of the poor widow, I eagerly returned to my trade of smuggler, which had become more easy since that relaxation of the laws which always follows a revolution.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 16 I and a brother banker have obtained a grant of a railway, the only industrial enterprise which in these days promises to make good the fabulous prospects that Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter. 17 It is true that my patrimony will go to endow charitable institutions, and my father will have deprived me of my lawful inheritance without any reason for doing so, but I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that I have acted like a man of sense and feeling.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 60. The Telegraph. Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.