1 At the left of the opening was a dark and deep angle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave. 2 The ways of justice are frequently too dark and mysterious to be easily penetrated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 3 The young man remarked the greedy glance which shone in the dark eyes of his neighbor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 2. Father and Son. 4 They advanced silently, the count guiding Franz as if he had the singular faculty of seeing in the dark.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 5 At this instant a bright light shot through the mind of Dantes, and cleared up all that had been dark and obscure before.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 6 He is a man of from fifty to fifty-two years of age, dark, with black eyes covered with shaggy eyebrows, and a thick mustache.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre. 7 It was the portrait of a young woman of five or six and twenty, with a dark complexion, and light and lustrous eyes, veiled beneath long lashes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 8 He had recognized intelligence in the high forehead, courage in the dark eye and bent brow, and frankness in the thick lips that showed a set of pearly teeth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 9 Over these dark and sombre chairs were thrown splendid stuffs, dyed beneath Persia's sun, or woven by the fingers of the women of Calcutta or of Chandernagor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 39. The Guests. 10 Two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 11 It was dark, but at eleven o'clock the moon rose in the midst of the ocean, whose every wave she silvered, and then, "ascending high," played in floods of pale light on the rocky hills of this second Pelion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 12 The Spadas remained in doubtful ease, a mystery hung over this dark affair, and the public rumor was, that Caesar, a better politician than his father, had carried off from the pope the fortune of the two cardinals.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 13 He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 14 The faint glimpses of the pale moon, hidden momentarily by masses of dark clouds that were sweeping across the sky, whitened the gravel walks that led to the house, but were unable to pierce the obscurity of the thick shrubberies, in which a man could conceal himself without any fear of discovery.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 15 While affecting to be deeply engaged in examining the ladder, the mind of Dantes was, in fact, busily occupied by the idea that a person so intelligent, ingenious, and clear-sighted as the abbe might probably be able to solve the dark mystery of his own misfortunes, where he himself could see nothing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 16 But however the mind of the young man might be absorbed in these reflections, they were at once dispersed at the sight of the dark frowning ruins of the stupendous Colosseum, through the various openings of which the pale moonlight played and flickered like the unearthly gleam from the eyes of the wandering dead.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 17 Hastily raising myself on one arm, I looked around, but all was dark; and it seemed to me as if the rain must have penetrated through the flooring of the room above, for some kind of moisture appeared to fall, drop by drop, upon my forehead, and when I passed my hand across my brow, I felt that it was wet and clammy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 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.