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1  Julie made a pretence to feel for the key.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
2  Morrel asked his daughter for the key of his study.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
3  A key was inserted in the lock of the first door, and the creaking of hinges was audible.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
4  The count had, moreover, charged him to offer the two friends the key of his box at the Argentina.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
5  In a moment, thanks to her habit of conversing with her grandfather, she understood that he asked for a key.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement.
6  He double locked it, took the key, returned to the bedroom door, removed the double staple of the bolt, and went in.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
7  My first care was to run to the door; he had left the key in it, taking the simple precaution of turning it twice in the lock.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
8  Scarcely was the count alone, when he drew from his pocket a book closed with a lock, and opened it with a key which he wore round his neck, and which never left him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 42. Monsieur Bertuccio.
9  At the sound of the key turning in the lock, and the creaking of the hinges, Dantes, who was crouched in a corner of the dungeon, whence he could see the ray of light that came through a narrow iron grating above, raised his head.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
10  At last, about ten o'clock, and just as Dantes began to despair, steps were heard in the corridor, a key turned in the lock, the bolts creaked, the massy oaken door flew open, and a flood of light from two torches pervaded the apartment.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
11  She opened the drawer, and found a key; and, understanding that was what he wanted, again watched his eyes, which turned toward an old secretary which had been neglected for many years and was supposed to contain nothing but useless documents.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement.
12  Caesar thought they could make use of one of the means which he always had ready for his friends, that is to say, in the first place, the famous key which was given to certain persons with the request that they go and open a designated cupboard.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
13  Alone and free to act as he wished, the man then drew from his pocket something which the count could not discern, placed it on a stand, then went straight to the secretary, felt the lock, and contrary to his expectation found that the key was missing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
14  He hastened to the side-door with Ali, entered hurriedly, and by the servants' staircase, of which he had the key, gained his bedroom without opening or disarranging a single curtain, without even the porter having the slightest suspicion that the house, which he supposed empty, contained its chief occupant.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 82. The Burglary.
15  Dantes heard joyfully the key grate in the lock; he listened until the sound of steps died away, and then, hastily displacing his bed, saw by the faint light that penetrated into his cell, that he had labored uselessly the previous evening in attacking the stone instead of removing the plaster that surrounded it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   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 Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
17  She entered the office where Emmanuel was, while Cocles, by the aid of a key he possessed, opened a door in the corner of a landing-place on the second staircase, conducted the stranger into an ante-chamber, opened a second door, which he closed behind him, and after having left the clerk of the house of Thomson & French alone, returned and signed to him that he could enter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
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