1 At the same time, he saw they were about to lower the boat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 2 At this moment the boat came to a landing with a violent shock.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 3 An instant after, the boat, rowed by two men, advanced rapidly towards him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 4 Two hours afterwards he came on deck, as the boat was about to double the Island of Elba.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 5 They advanced towards a boat, which a custom-house officer held by a chain, near the quay.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 6 de Villefort's promise; and, besides, death in a boat from the hand of a gendarme seemed too terrible.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 7 He remained silent, his eyes fixed upon the light; the boat went on, but the prisoner thought only of Mercedes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 8 While he had been absorbed in thought, they had shipped their oars and hoisted sail; the boat was now moving with the wind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 9 At a shout from the boat, the chain that closes the mouth of the port was lowered and in a second they were, as Dantes knew, in the Frioul and outside the inner harbor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 10 He fancied that every wave behind him was a pursuing boat, and he redoubled his exertions, increasing rapidly his distance from the chateau, but exhausting his strength.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 11 One of the sailors leaped on shore, a cord creaked as it ran through a pulley, and Dantes guessed they were at the end of the voyage, and that they were mooring the boat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 12 The boat they were in could not make a long voyage; there was no vessel at anchor outside the harbor; he thought, perhaps, they were going to leave him on some distant point.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 13 The boat that now arrived, assured by the answering signal that all was well, soon came in sight, white and silent as a phantom, and cast anchor within a cable's length of shore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 14 By a rapid movement, which the gendarme's practiced eye had perceived, Dantes sprang forward to precipitate himself into the sea; but four vigorous arms seized him as his feet quitted the bottom of the boat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 15 In an instant he was placed in the stern-sheets of the boat, between the gendarmes, while the officer stationed himself at the bow; a shove sent the boat adrift, and four sturdy oarsmen impelled it rapidly towards the Pilon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 16 The two oarsmen bent to their work, and the little boat glided away as rapidly as possible in the midst of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which leads between the two rows of ships from the mouth of the harbor to the Quai d'Orleans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 17 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. Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.