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1  Cocles thus remained in his accustomed tranquillity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
2  The family began to get accustomed to their obscurity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
3  I shall stay here for a few days longer; we must accustom ourselves to parting.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds.
4  Faria, the beneficent and cheerful companion, with whom he was accustomed to live so intimately, no longer breathed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.
5  When the hour for his jailer's visit arrived, Dantes straightened the handle of the saucepan as well as he could, and placed it in its accustomed place.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
6  One evening, after a day of accustomed vigil at the angle of two roads leading to Marseilles from the Catalans, she returned to her home more depressed than ever.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
7  With these words he went stealthily to the door, which he closed, and, by way of still greater precaution, bolted and barred it, as he was accustomed to do at night.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
8  The door closed, and Dantes advanced with outstretched hands until he touched the wall; he then sat down in the corner until his eyes became accustomed to the darkness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
9  He accustomed himself to speaking to the new jailer, although the latter was, if possible, more taciturn than the old one; but still, to speak to a man, even though mute, was something.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
10  His thin face, deeply furrowed by care, and the bold outline of his strongly marked features, betokened a man more accustomed to exercise his mental faculties than his physical strength.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
11  The jailer was accustomed to pour the contents of the saucepan into Dantes' plate, and Dantes, after eating his soup with a wooden spoon, washed the plate, which thus served for every day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
12  Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the mountaineers, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted over the plains of Bordeaux by Robespierre's bloodhounds, he becomes accustomed to most things.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12. Father and Son.
13  He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
14  At this unusual sound, a huge black dog came rushing to meet the daring assailant of his ordinarily tranquil abode, snarling and displaying his sharp white teeth with a determined hostility that abundantly proved how little he was accustomed to society.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
15  Through the darkness Franz, whose eyes were now more accustomed to it, could see the looming shore along which the boat was sailing, and then, as they rounded a rocky point, he saw the fire more brilliant than ever, and about it five or six persons seated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
16  Evening came, and Edmond saw the island tinged with the shades of twilight, and then disappear in the darkness from all eyes but his own, for he, with vision accustomed to the gloom of a prison, continued to behold it last of all, for he remained alone upon deck.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
17  The bed belonging to the present occupants was placed as the former owner of the chamber had been accustomed to have his; and, in spite of his efforts to prevent it, the eyes of Edmond were suffused in tears as he reflected that on that spot the old man had breathed his last, vainly calling for his son.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
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