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1  A bed of dried grass covered with goat-skins was placed in one corner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 114. Peppino.
2  The grass had grown very thickly there during the summer, and when autumn arrived no one had been there to mow it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
3  Still one place where the grass was thin attracted my attention; it evidently was there I had turned up the ground.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 67. At the Office of the King's Attorney.
4  I then perceived that he was hiding something under his mantle, which he laid on the grass in order to dig more freely.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
5  There was not a blade of grass to be seen in the paths, or a weed in the flower-beds; no fine lady ever trained and watered her geraniums, her cacti, and her rhododendrons, with more pains than this hitherto unseen gardener bestowed upon his little enclosure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ...
6  Bertuccio planted an entirely bare court with poplars, large spreading sycamores to shade the different parts of the house, and in the foreground, instead of the usual paving-stones, half hidden by the grass, there extended a lawn but that morning laid down, and upon which the water was yet glistening.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 62. Ghosts.
7  A large stone had served as a wedge; flints and pebbles had been inserted around it, so as to conceal the orifice; this species of masonry had been covered with earth, and grass and weeds had grown there, moss had clung to the stones, myrtle-bushes had taken root, and the old rock seemed fixed to the earth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.