1 A torrent, whose bed was dry, led into a deep gorge.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 2 This and some dried fruits and a flask of Monte Pulciano, was the bill of fare.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 3 Meanwhile the sailors had collected dried sticks and branches with which they made a fire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 4 The cell was clean, though empty, and dry, though situated at an immeasurable distance under the earth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 5 He stretched forth his hand, and touched stone; he rose to his seat, and found himself lying on his bournous in a bed of dry heather, very soft and odoriferous.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 6 Thirty strides brought them to dry land; the young man stamped on the ground to shake off the wet, and looked around for some one to show him his road, for it was quite dark.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 7 The man looked at the bank-notes, felt them, counted them, turned pale, then red, then rushed into his room to drink a glass of water, but he had no time to reach the water-jug, and fainted in the midst of his dried herbs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ... 8 And for the second time Haidee stopped, overcome by such violent emotion that the perspiration stood upon her pale brow, and her stifled voice seemed hardly able to find utterance, so parched and dry were her throat and lips.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 9 Two stone steps worn away by the friction of many feet led to the door, which was made of three planks; the door had never been painted or varnished, so great cracks yawned in it during the dry season to close again when the rains came on.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 112. The Departure. 10 He then began pacing the room with a pensive and gloomy air, glancing from time to time at the jeweller, who stood reeking with the steam from his wet clothes, and merely changing his place on the warm hearth, to enable the whole of his garments to be dried.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 11 On the walls, over the doors, on the ceiling, were swords, daggers, Malay creeses, maces, battle-axes; gilded, damasked, and inlaid suits of armor; dried plants, minerals, and stuffed birds, their flame-colored wings outspread in motionless flight, and their beaks forever open.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 39. The Guests. 12 Andrea, indeed, inhaled the scent of something cooking which was not unwelcome to him, hungry as he was; it was that mixture of fat and garlic peculiar to provincial kitchens of an inferior order, added to that of dried fish, and above all, the pungent smell of musk and cloves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. 13 "Never mind, Renee," replied the marquise, with a look of tenderness that seemed out of keeping with her harsh dry features; but, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the desert of her heart, and that is the shrine of maternal love.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi. 14 Dantes possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 15 Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots; while, lone and solitary, like a forgotten sentinel, a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot, and displayed its flexible stem and fan-shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub-tropical sun.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn. 16 This child, for whom my poor sister would go to the town, five or six leagues off, to purchase the earliest fruits and the most tempting sweetmeats, preferred to Palma grapes or Genoese preserves, the chestnuts stolen from a neighbor's orchard, or the dried apples in his loft, when he could eat as well of the nuts and apples that grew in my garden.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 17 The jeweller, meanwhile, was humming a song as he stood warming his back at the fire La Carconte had kindled to dry the wet garments of her guest; and this done, she next occupied herself in arranging his supper, by spreading a napkin at the end of the table, and placing on it the slender remains of their dinner, to which she added three or four fresh-laid eggs.
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