1 He had not tasted food for forty hours.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 2 His resolution not to sign lasted two days, after which he offered a million for some food.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 116. The Pardon. 3 He had often heard that shipwrecked persons had died through having eagerly devoured too much food.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 4 He could hang himself with his handkerchief to the window bars, or refuse food and die of starvation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 5 Fortunately, he fancied that Dantes was delirious; and placing the food on the rickety table, he withdrew.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 6 The day passed thus; he scarcely tasted food, but walked round and round the cell like a wild beast in its cage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 7 This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantes like a scaffold to a malefactor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 8 But the mysteries of nature are incomprehensible, and there are certain invitations contained in even the coarsest food which appeal very irresistibly to a fasting stomach.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare. 9 But here are your bonds; pay me differently; and he held the bonds towards Danglars, who seized them like a vulture extending its claws to withhold the food that is being wrested from its grasp.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 104. Danglars Signature. 10 As for the count, he just touched the dishes; he seemed to fulfil the duties of a host by sitting down with his guests, and awaited their departure to be served with some strange or more delicate food.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata. 11 The count, however, has commissioned me to assure you that two or three days' rest, with plenty of barley for their sole food during that time, will bring them back to as fine, that is as terrifying, a condition as they were in yesterday.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 12 But I did so because I was happy, because I had not courted death, because to be cast upon a bed of rocks and seaweed seemed terrible, because I was unwilling that I, a creature made for the service of God, should serve for food to the gulls and ravens.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 13 He rapidly devoured his food, and after waiting an hour, lest the jailer should change his mind and return, he removed his bed, took the handle of the saucepan, inserted the point between the hewn stone and rough stones of the wall, and employed it as a lever.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 14 de Villefort; she did not obtain it, however, and went to visit the old man; when she saw him so miserable and heart-broken, having passed a sleepless night, and not touched food since the previous day, she wished him to go with her that she might take care of him; but the old man would not consent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 15 Dantes raised himself up and began to talk about everything; about the bad quality of the food, about the coldness of his dungeon, grumbling and complaining, in order to have an excuse for speaking louder, and wearying the patience of his jailer, who out of kindness of heart had brought broth and white bread for his prisoner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 16 Almost before the key had turned in the lock, and before the departing steps of the jailer had died away in the long corridor he had to traverse, Dantes, whose restless anxiety concerning his friend left him no desire to touch the food brought him, hurried back to the abbe's chamber, and raising the stone by pressing his head against it, was soon beside the sick man's couch.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.