1 You see, I have been a soldier ever since I attained manhood.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 2 Andrea had, then, in a fortnight, attained a very fair position.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger. 3 Morrel, I possess nearly a hundred millions and I give them to you; with such a fortune you can attain every wish.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 4 This alone can stop me in my onward career, before I have attained the goal at which I aim, for all the rest I have reduced to mathematical terms.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 5 To attain such a point, the blood must be heated to thirty-six degrees, the pulse be, at least, at ninety, and the feelings excited beyond the ordinary limit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 6 Well," cried he, with that benevolent politeness which distinguished his salutation from the common civilities of the world, "my cavalier has attained his object.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 88. The Insult. 7 I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, "upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 8 As regarded her attainments, the only fault to be found with them was the same that a fastidious connoisseur might have found with her beauty, that they were somewhat too erudite and masculine for so young a person.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable. 9 The boat, indeed, seemed to be animated with almost human intelligence, so promptly did it obey the slightest touch; and Dantes required but a short trial of his beautiful craft to acknowledge that the Genoese had not without reason attained their high reputation in the art of shipbuilding.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 10 Already Dantes had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.