1 The count filled one glass, but in the other he only poured a few drops of the ruby-colored liquid.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 55. Major Cavalcanti. 2 Barrois took the glass, and, raising it to his purple lips, took about half of the liquid offered him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 79. The Lemonade. 3 But drink some of this; and the count took a bottle from his pocket, containing a red liquid, of which he poured a few drops into the glass.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 100. The Apparition. 4 Then everything was still, excepting that Valentine heard the almost noiseless sound of some liquid being poured into the glass she had just emptied.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 101. Locusta. 5 Madame Danglars was carried into the adjoining room; Monte Cristo dropped a very small portion of the red liquid upon her lips; she returned to consciousness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 63. The Dinner. 6 "I have mine," said Madame de Villefort; and she passed over to Monte Cristo a bottle full of the same kind of red liquid whose good properties the count had tested on Edward.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 63. The Dinner. 7 Madame de Villefort emptied the contents into the ashes, which she disturbed that they might the more readily absorb the liquid; then she carefully rinsed the glass, and wiping it with her handkerchief replaced it on the table.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 102. Valentine. 8 Then he thought it was time to make the last trial, and he put the phial to the purple lips of Faria, and without having occasion to force open his jaws, which had remained extended, he poured the whole of the liquid down his throat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 9 With a calm smile and a gentle wave of the hand, Monte Cristo signed to the distracted mother to lay aside her apprehensions; then, opening a casket that stood near, he drew forth a phial of Bohemian glass incrusted with gold, containing a liquid of the color of blood, of which he let fall a single drop on the child's lips.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 10 "Madame," replied Monte Cristo gravely, and gazing earnestly on the two liquid pearls that trickled down Julie's cheeks, "had Lord Wilmore seen what I now see, he would become attached to life, for the tears you shed would reconcile him to mankind;" and he held out his hand to Julie, who gave him hers, carried away by the look and accent of the count.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.