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1  "Go on," said the count in the Romaic language.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
2  "A friend," said Monte Cristo in the same language.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
3  "I know you do not like to converse in our language," replied the envoy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 69. The Inquiry.
4  Some few words passed between them in that sonorous language in which Homer makes his gods converse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood.
5  "Ah," continued Caderousse, speaking in the highly colored language of the south, "the world grows worse and worse."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
6  The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
7  This was said in excellent Tuscan, and with that soft Roman accent which makes the language of Dante as sonorous as that of Homer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
8  "You seem incredulous," said Monte Cristo, who repeated to Ali in the Arabic language what he had just been saying to Baptistin in French.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
9  It had been supposed some of the papers might be in the Arabian, Romaic, or Turkish language, and the interpreter of the House was in attendance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 86. The Trial.
10  Three persons only could understand this language of the poor paralytic; these were Villefort, Valentine, and the old servant of whom we have already spoken.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort.
11  Sir," said she, "the language which I speak with my grandfather may be easily learnt, and I can teach you in a few minutes, to understand it almost as well as I can myself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
12  The prisoners, in their expressive language, have named it the "Lions' Den," probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw the bars, and sometimes the keepers also.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 107. The Lions' Den.
13  This village, constructed in a singular and picturesque manner, half Moorish, half Spanish, still remains, and is inhabited by descendants of the first comers, who speak the language of their fathers.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
14  There is, then, the second point cleared up, or nearly so," said Eugenie, without the least confusion, and with that masculine pointedness which distinguished her gesture and her language; "and you appear satisfied with the explanation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
15  For three or four centuries they have remained upon this small promontory, on which they had settled like a flight of seabirds, without mixing with the Marseillaise population, intermarrying, and preserving their original customs and the costume of their mother-country as they have preserved its language.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
16  When they spoke, although Teresa listened timidly and with downcast eyes to the conversation of her cavalier, as Luigi could read in the ardent looks of the good-looking young man that his language was that of praise, it seemed as if the whole world was turning round with him, and all the voices of hell were whispering in his ears ideas of murder and assassination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
17  More than a year had been consumed in this undertaking, the only tools for which had been a chisel, a knife, and a wooden lever; Faria still continuing to instruct Dantes by conversing with him, sometimes in one language, sometimes in another; at others, relating to him the history of nations and great men who from time to time have risen to fame and trodden the path of glory.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
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