1 He attacked this wall, cemented by the hand of time, with his pickaxe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 2 At the fifth or sixth blow the pickaxe struck against an iron substance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 3 Dantes struck with the sharp end of his pickaxe, which entered someway between the interstices.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 4 He advanced towards the angle, and summoning all his resolution, attacked the ground with the pickaxe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 5 He again struck his pickaxe into the earth, and encountered the same resistance, but not the same sound.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 6 The pickaxe that had seemed so heavy, was now like a feather in his grasp; he seized it, and attacked the wall.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 7 The pickaxe struck for a moment with a dull sound that drew out of Dantes' forehead large drops of perspiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 8 He had nothing more to do now, but with the iron tooth of the pickaxe to draw the stones towards him one by one.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 9 He approached the hole he had dug, and now, with the aid of the torch, saw that his pickaxe had in reality struck against iron and wood.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 10 Carlini fetched two pickaxes; and the father and the lover began to dig at the foot of a huge oak, beneath which the young girl was to repose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 11 Dantes inserted the sharp end of the pickaxe between the coffer and the lid, and pressing with all his force on the handle, burst open the fastenings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 12 Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 13 With the aid of his pickaxe, Dantes, after the manner of a labor-saving pioneer, dug a mine between the upper rock and the one that supported it, filled it with powder, then made a match by rolling his handkerchief in saltpetre.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 14 This feeling was so strong that at the moment when Edmond was about to begin his labor, he stopped, laid down his pickaxe, seized his gun, mounted to the summit of the highest rock, and from thence gazed round in every direction.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 15 After several blows he perceived that the stones were not cemented, but had been merely placed one upon the other, and covered with stucco; he inserted the point of his pickaxe, and using the handle as a lever, with joy soon saw the stone turn as if on hinges, and fall at his feet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 16 However, he, like Caesar Borgia, knew the value of time; and, in order to avoid fruitless toil, he sounded all the other walls with his pickaxe, struck the earth with the butt of his gun, and finding nothing that appeared suspicious, returned to that part of the wall whence issued the consoling sound he had before heard.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 17 This last proof, instead of giving him fresh strength, deprived him of it; the pickaxe descended, or rather fell; he placed it on the ground, passed his hand over his brow, and remounted the stairs, alleging to himself, as an excuse, a desire to be assured that no one was watching him, but in reality because he felt that he was about to faint.
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