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1  Morrel, however, extended his arm, and commanded silence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 103. Maximilian.
2  I am at the command of the committee, and even claim the honor of being heard.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
3  He commanded with it; it was the medium through which his thanks were conveyed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
4  In spite of his usual command over himself, Dantes could not restrain his impetuosity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
5  My stables are at your command, viscount; but you will kill yourself by riding on horseback.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 85. The Journey.
6  I hope I shall gain Renee's favor easily by obeying the first command she ever imposed on me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
7  I fully authorize you at once to assume the command of the Pharaon, and look carefully to the unloading of her freight.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast.
8  Ali was stationed as a kind of advanced guard, and the door was kept by the three French attendants, commanded by Myrtho.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
9  She took it, and looked attentively on the count; there was an expression on the face of her intrepid protector which commanded her veneration.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 101. Locusta.
10  And this time the tone and manner in which the command was given, betokened such growing hostility that the two young men perceived, for the first time, that the mandate was addressed to them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
11  Now, in spite of the nobility of his countenance, the command of which, like a finished actor, he had carefully studied before the glass, it was by no means easy for him to assume an air of judicial severity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7. The Examination.
12  Sometimes," said he, "in my voyages, when I was a man and commanded other men, I have seen the heavens overcast, the sea rage and foam, the storm arise, and, like a monstrous bird, beating the two horizons with its wings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
13  Bertuccio, according to the command which had been given him, had two hours before left for Auteuil, when a cab stopped at the door, and after depositing its occupant at the gate, immediately hurried away, as if ashamed of its employment.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55. Major Cavalcanti.
14  Morrel is utterly ruined; he has lost five ships in two years, has suffered by the bankruptcy of three large houses, and his only hope now is in that very Pharaon which poor Dantes commanded, and which is expected from the Indies with a cargo of cochineal and indigo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
15  The king's attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and religion that one Edmond Dantes, second in command on board the Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, is the bearer of a letter from Murat to the usurper, and of another letter from the usurper to the Bonapartist club in Paris.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 89. A Nocturnal Interview.
16  At other times in spite of maternal endearments or threats, I had with a child's caprice been accustomed to indulge my feelings of sorrow or anger by crying as much as I felt inclined; but on this occasion there was an intonation of such extreme terror in my mother's voice when she enjoined me to silence, that I ceased crying as soon as her command was given.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
17  But as soon as it was finished, the buzz was redoubled through all the drawing-rooms; the brilliant sums, the rolling millions which were to be at the command of the two young people, and which crowned the display of the wedding presents and the young lady's diamonds, which had been made in a room entirely appropriated for that purpose, had exercised to the full their delusions over the envious assembly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
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