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1  Andrea had formed a plan which was tolerably clever.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 107. The Lions' Den.
2  "No," replied he with an air of triumph which would have puzzled the most clever diviner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal.
3  The president called for the indictment, revised as we know, by the clever and implacable pen of Villefort.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 110. The Indictment.
4  Then he returned hastily, shut his door carefully, and began to study, like a clever architect, the plan Andrea had left him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
5  You talk like a noodle, my friend," said Caderousse; "and here is Danglars, who is a wide-awake, clever, deep fellow, who will prove to you that you are wrong.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4. Conspiracy.
6  Andrea had very cleverly managed to descend two-thirds of the chimney, but then his foot slipped, and notwithstanding his endeavors, he came into the room with more speed and noise than he intended.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
7  They hang, behead, and impale their criminals in the most agreeable possible manner; but some of these, like clever rogues, have contrived to escape human justice, and succeed in their fraudulent enterprises by cunning stratagems.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
8  In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
9  There is," said he, at the end of his meditations, "a clever maxim, which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
10  Monte Cristo watched him till he disappeared, and then touched a spring in a panel made to look like a picture, which, in sliding partly from the frame, discovered to view a small opening, so cleverly contrived that it revealed all that was passing in the drawing-room now occupied by Cavalcanti and Andrea.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti.
11  Andrea, on whose arm hung one of the most consummate dandies of the opera, was explaining to him rather cleverly, since he was obliged to be bold to appear at ease, his future projects, and the new luxuries he meant to introduce to Parisian fashions with his hundred and seventy-five thousand livres per annum.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.