1 The sun, red and flaming, was sinking into the embrace of the welcoming ocean.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 113. The Past. 2 That pale face and flaming glance appeared to Villefort like a frightful apparition.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 103. Maximilian. 3 And he renewed the flame of his lance with a gesture which made one think of Dionysus of Crete.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 4 I felt for it, found it, twisted it up together, and putting it into the expiring flame, set light to it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 5 Oh, make yourself easy on that head,' said Ali, smiling; 'Selim and his flaming lance will settle that matter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 6 One single, solitary light was burning there, and it appeared like a star set in a heaven of blackness; it was Selim's flaming lance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 7 Then the iron-hearted man felt his heart swell in his breast; a flame seemed to rush from his throat to his eyes, he bent his head and wept.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 8 At this moment the expiring embers threw up a fresh flame from the kindling of a piece of wood that lay near, and a bright light flashed over the room.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 9 This battle of folly and flame continued for two hours; the Corso was light as day; the features of the spectators on the third and fourth stories were visible.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 10 "I am on the earth to punish, madame," he added, with a flaming glance; "any other woman, were it the queen herself, I would send to the executioner; but to you I shall be merciful."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 108. The Judge. 11 A lamp, placed at the base of a pillar, lighted up with its pale and flickering flame the singular scene which presented itself to the eyes of the two visitors concealed in the shadow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 12 But immediately through this opening twenty more shots were fired, and the flame, rushing up like fire from the crater of a volcano, soon reached the tapestry, which it quickly devoured.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 13 Covered with flames, Assunta rushed wildly to the door, but it was fastened; she flew to the windows, but they were also secured; then the neighbors heard frightful shrieks; it was Assunta calling for help.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 14 Awakened in the night by the light of the flames, she sprang out of bed, wrapped herself in a dressing-gown, and attempted to escape by the door, but the corridor by which she hoped to fly was already a prey to the flames.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 15 The globe of the lamp appeared of a reddish hue, and the flame, brightening before it expired, threw out the last flickerings which in an inanimate object have been so often compared with the convulsions of a human creature in its final agonies.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 102. Valentine. 16 Lips of stone turned to flame, breasts of ice became like heated lava, so that to Franz, yielding for the first time to the sway of the drug, love was a sorrow and voluptuousness a torture, as burning mouths were pressed to his thirsty lips, and he was held in cool serpent-like embraces.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 17 I grasped it in my hand, put out the flame as quickly as I could, lighted my taper in the fire itself, and opened the crumpled paper with inexpressible emotion, recognizing, when I had done so, that these characters had been traced in mysterious and sympathetic ink, only appearing when exposed to the fire; nearly one-third of the paper had been consumed by the flame.
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