1 His tongue was paralyzed in his mouth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 111. Expiation. 2 He wished to speak, but his tongue refused to move.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 3 Whence it came no one knew, and it spoke an unknown tongue.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 4 I confess I had my fears, in the state in which politics then were, and I held my tongue.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 5 Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to this day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 6 Albert and Beauchamp parted, the last pressure of their hands expressing what their tongues could not before a stranger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 85. The Journey. 7 He struggled against his thirst till his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth; then, no longer able to resist, he called out.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 116. The Pardon. 8 There was not on the pavement, in the carriages, at the windows, a single tongue that was silent, a single arm that did not move.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 9 He wished to articulate a last farewell, but his tongue lay motionless and heavy in his throat, like a stone at the mouth of a sepulchre.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 10 I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 11 But Andrea, turning towards them, winked his eyes, rolled his tongue around his cheeks, and smacked his lips in a manner equivalent to a hundred words among the bandits when forced to be silent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 107. The Lions' Den. 12 I always had a desire to have a mute in my service, so learning the day his tongue was cut out, I went to the bey, and proposed to give him for Ali a splendid double-barreled gun which I knew he was very desirous of having.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 13 Noirtier watched, with indescribable pleasure, this noble and sincere countenance, on which every sentiment his tongue uttered was depicted, adding by the expression of his fine features all that coloring adds to a sound and faithful drawing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 14 You are still yourself as now, and yet you are yourself no longer; you who, like Ariel, verge on the angelic, are but an inert mass, which, like Caliban, verges on the brutal; and this is called in human tongues, as I tell you, neither more nor less than apoplexy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 15 It seems the fellow had been caught wandering nearer to the harem of the Bey of Tunis than etiquette permits to one of his color, and he was condemned by the bey to have his tongue cut out, and his hand and head cut off; the tongue the first day, the hand the second, and the head the third.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.