1 All Villefort's influence barely enabled him to stifle the secret Dantes had so nearly divulged.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days. 2 Indeed they are not; but God has supplied man with the intelligence that enables him to overcome the limitations of natural conditions.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 3 Why, I made a vocabulary of the words I knew; turned, returned, and arranged them, so as to enable me to express my thoughts through their medium.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 4 His eyes acquired that quality which in the first moment of strong emotion enables them to see distinctly, and which afterwards fails from being too much taxed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 5 The old man did not answer, but looked at his master with wild staring eyes, while with his cramped hand he grasped a piece of furniture to enable him to stand upright.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 79. The Lemonade. 6 In fact, the pursuing vessel had almost overtaken them when, fortunately, night came on, and enabled them to double the Cape of Corsica, and so elude all further pursuit.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 7 Albert was accompanied by Lucien Debray, who, joining in his friend's conversation, added some passing compliments, the source of which the count's talent for finesse easily enabled him to guess.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks. 8 Dantes listened with admiring attention to all he said; some of his remarks corresponded with what he already knew, or applied to the sort of knowledge his nautical life had enabled him to acquire.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 9 I possess a share of wit, and a certain relative sensibility, which enables me to draw from life in general, for the support of mine, all I meet with that is good, like the monkey who cracks the nut to get at its contents.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter. 10 At these words he raised his hand above his head, to show the token; but it was too far off, and there was not light enough to enable Selim, where he was standing, to distinguish and recognize the object presented to his view.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 11 The day came at length, and was almost as feverish as the night had been, but it brought reason to the aid of imagination, and Dantes was then enabled to arrange a plan which had hitherto been vague and unsettled in his brain.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 12 I believe that the Spirit of God led my steps to thee and that he also enables me to quit thee in triumph; the secret cause of my presence within thy walls I have confided alone to him who only has had the power to read my heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 112. The Departure. 13 You know the affairs of the deceased are in perfect order, and her will bequeaths to Valentine the entire property of the Saint-Meran family; the notary showed me the documents yesterday, which will enable us to draw up the contract immediately.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault. 14 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. 15 Some days after this meeting, Albert de Morcerf visited the Count of Monte Cristo at his house in the Champs Elysees, which had already assumed that palace-like appearance which the count's princely fortune enabled him to give even to his most temporary residences.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks. 16 I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 17 There is no gainsaying the fact that a very unfavorable construction would have been put upon the circumstance if the two women had gone without escort, while the addition of a third, in the person of her mother's admitted lover, enabled Mademoiselle Danglars to defy malice and ill-nature.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable. 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.