1 The peak of Monte Cristo reddened by the burning sun, was seen against the azure sky.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 2 He found that he was in a grotto, went towards the opening, and through a kind of fanlight saw a blue sea and an azure sky.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 3 They had found the door of the grotto opened, and gone forth; on the azure dome of heaven still glittered a few remaining stars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 4 Her eyes, raised towards heaven, were watching a silvery cloud gliding over the azure, its form that of a shadow mounting towards heaven.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 5 They sailed; Edmond was again cleaving the azure sea which had been the first horizon of his youth, and which he had so often dreamed of in prison.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 6 In a creek lay a little sloop, with a narrow keel and high masts, bearing on its flag the Monte Cristo arms which were a mountain on a sea azure, with a cross gules on the shield.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 85. The Journey. 7 Before him is a dead sea that stretches in azure calm before the eye; but he who unwarily ventures within its embrace finds himself struggling with a monster that would drag him down to perdition.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 8 He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 9 It was ten o'clock at night; the branches of the great trees in the garden of the count's house stood out boldly against the azure canopy of heaven, which was studded with golden stars, but where the last fleeting clouds of a vanishing storm yet lingered.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 70. The Ball. 10 Then in the long days on board ship, when the vessel, gliding on with security over the azure sea, required no care but the hand of the helmsman, thanks to the favorable winds that swelled her sails, Edmond, with a chart in his hand, became the instructor of Jacopo, as the poor Abbe Faria had been his tutor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 11 By degrees the sun disappeared behind the western horizon; but as though to prove the truth of the fanciful ideas in heathen mythology, its indiscreet rays reappeared on the summit of every wave, as if the god of fire had just sunk upon the bosom of Amphitrite, who in vain endeavored to hide her lover beneath her azure mantle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 12 Around this opening, which had, possibly, for ages permitted a free entrance to the brilliant moonbeams that now illumined the vast pile, grew a quantity of creeping plants, whose delicate green branches stood out in bold relief against the clear azure of the firmament, while large masses of thick, strong fibrous shoots forced their way through the chasm, and hung floating to and fro, like so many waving strings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.