1 A single portrait, signed by Leopold Robert, shone in its carved and gilded frame.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 2 No, it is not existence, then, that I regret, but the ruin of projects so slowly carried out, so laboriously framed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 90. The Meeting. 3 They carried Valentine away; she had revived, but could scarcely move or speak, so shaken was her frame by the attack.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal. 4 Then he took away his mother's portrait, with its oaken frame, leaving the gilt frame from which he took it black and empty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 91. Mother and Son. 5 Noirtier had succeeded in mastering his emotion more than could have been deemed possible with such an enfeebled and shattered frame.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. 6 At length she felt his heart beat, a faint breath played upon his lips, a slight shudder, announcing the return of life, passed through the young man's frame.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 7 A tremor of suppressed rage shook the whole frame of the count, and making a violent effort over himself, he said: "I have a right to insist on your giving me an explanation."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina. 8 She had been standing at the door, to prevent his going out without seeing her, until sleep, which the young cannot resist, had overpowered her frame, wearied as she was with watching.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 90. The Meeting. 9 I have, therefore, chosen this drawing-room, where you see, smiling and happy in their magnificent frames, your portrait, mine, my mother's, and all sorts of rural landscapes and touching pastorals.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter. 10 Inured as men may be to danger, forewarned as they may be of peril, they understand, by the fluttering of the heart and the shuddering of the frame, the enormous difference between a dream and a reality, between the project and the execution.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 11 Then collecting all her remaining strength, she forced herself to close her eyes; but this simple operation upon the most delicate organs of our frame, generally so easy to accomplish, became almost impossible at this moment, so much did curiosity struggle to retain the eyelid open and learn the truth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 101. Locusta. 12 When Albert returned to his mother, he found her in the boudoir reclining in a large velvet arm-chair, the whole room so obscure that only the shining spangle, fastened here and there to the drapery, and the angles of the gilded frames of the pictures, showed with some degree of brightness in the gloom.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 13 Monte Cristo watched him till he disappeared, and then touched a spring in a panel made to look like a picture, which, in sliding partly from the frame, discovered to view a small opening, so cleverly contrived that it revealed all that was passing in the drawing-room now occupied by Cavalcanti and Andrea.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti. 14 And this time, as though nature had at least taken compassion on the vigorous frame, nearly bursting with its own strength, the words of Morrel were stifled in his throat; his breast heaved; the tears, so long rebellious, gushed from his eyes; and he threw himself weeping on his knees by the side of the bed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 103. Maximilian. 15 So sudden and violent was the fit that the unfortunate prisoner was unable to complete the sentence; a violent convulsion shook his whole frame, his eyes started from their sockets, his mouth was drawn on one side, his cheeks became purple, he struggled, foamed, dashed himself about, and uttered the most dreadful cries, which, however, Dantes prevented from being heard by covering his head with the blanket.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.