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1  You had friends, Albert; break off their acquaintance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 91. Mother and Son.
2  The breaking of his jug was too natural an accident to excite suspicion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
3  Because then you might witness a spectacle calculated to break down your pride.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
4  I have promised to remain forever with you, and now I could not break my promise if I would.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
5  They hesitated to break the silence which death seemed to impose; at length Valentine ventured.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
6  A thousand thanks, madame," replied Monte Cristo "but I have an engagement which I cannot break.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
7  Dantes had but one resource, which was to break the jug, and with one of the sharp fragments attack the wall.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
8  Yes," he said, "yes, doubtless it is painful, if you violently break the outer covering which obstinately begs for life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
9  First you break your jug, then you make me break your plate; if all the prisoners followed your example, the government would be ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
10  He was the man who had proposed to Carlini the health of their chief, and to whom Carlini replied by breaking the glass across his face.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
11  But," said Villefort, who was the first to break the silence, "I consider that I am the best judge of the propriety of the marriage in question.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
12  It was six o'clock in the morning, the dawn was just breaking, and its feeble ray came into the dungeon, and paled the ineffectual light of the lamp.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
13  It seemed to him that the island trembled to its base, and that it would, like a vessel at anchor, break moorings, and bear him off into the centre of the storm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
14  I seem to myself as though living a life of bondage, yet at the same time am so conscious of my own weakness that I fear to break the restraint in which I am held, lest I fall utterly helpless.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51. Pyramus and Thisbe.
15  Barrois, his features convulsed, his eyes suffused with blood, and his head thrown back, was lying at full length, beating the floor with his hands, while his legs had become so stiff, that they looked as if they would break rather than bend.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 79. The Lemonade.
16  A fiendish smile played over the features of Caderousse, who was about to break in upon the abbe's speech, when the latter, waving his hand, said, "Allow me to finish first, and then if you have any observations to make, you can do so afterwards."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
17  As for Albert and Franz, they essayed not to escape from their ciceronian tyrants; and, indeed, it would have been so much the more difficult to break their bondage, as the guides alone are permitted to visit these monuments with torches in their hands.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
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