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1  He was about to begin his repast when the sound of the bell rang sharp and loud.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre.
2  He started when he saw Renee, for he fancied she was again about to plead for Dantes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Evening of the Betrothal.
3  She loved Villefort, and he left her at the moment he was about to become her husband.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9. The Evening of the Betrothal.
4  They had passed the Tete de Morte, were now off the Anse du Pharo, and about to double the battery.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
5  Do not you recollect, I came about six weeks ago to plead for clemency, as I come to-day to plead for justice.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
6  Rapid as had been Villefort's glance, it had served to give him an idea of the man he was about to interrogate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
7  Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
8  He was a man of twenty-five or six, and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was about to make into a coat-lining.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2. Father and Son.
9  The soldiers you believe to be dying with hunger, worn out with fatigue, ready to desert, gather like atoms of snow about the rolling ball as it hastens onward.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Father and Son.
10  Beyond a bare, weather-worn wall, about a hundred paces from the spot where the two friends sat looking and listening as they drank their wine, was the village of the Catalans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
11  When they had advanced about twenty yards, Danglars looked back and saw Fernand stoop, pick up the crumpled paper, and putting it into his pocket then rush out of the arbor towards Pillon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Conspiracy.
12  Ample corroboration of this statement may be obtained by arresting the above-mentioned Edmond Dantes, who either carries the letter for Paris about with him, or has it at his father's abode.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
13  The obscurity augmented the acuteness of his hearing; at the slightest sound he rose and hastened to the door, convinced they were about to liberate him, but the sound died away, and Dantes sank again into his seat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
14  At last, about ten o'clock, and just as Dantes began to despair, steps were heard in the corridor, a key turned in the lock, the bolts creaked, the massy oaken door flew open, and a flood of light from two torches pervaded the apartment.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
15  Dantes was about to speak; but feeling himself urged forward, and having neither the power nor the intention to resist, he mounted the steps, and was in an instant seated inside between two gendarmes; the two others took their places opposite, and the carriage rolled heavily over the stones.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
16  He was about to marry a young and charming woman, whom he loved, not passionately, but reasonably, as became a deputy attorney of the king; and besides her personal attractions, which were very great, Mademoiselle de Saint-Meran's family possessed considerable political influence, which they would, of course, exert in his favor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
17  Fernand, probably excited beyond bearing, pricked by Danglars, as the bull is by the bandilleros, was about to rush out; for he had risen from his seat, and seemed to be collecting himself to dash headlong upon his rival, when Mercedes, smiling and graceful, lifted up her lovely head, and looked at them with her clear and bright eyes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
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