1 Directly afterwards the moon rose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 2 The moon shining through the open blinds made the lamp appear to burn paler, and cast a sepulchral hue over the whole scene.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 3 The moon had just then escaped from behind the cloud which had concealed it, and Morrel saw Villefort come out upon the steps, followed by a gentleman in black.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 4 When they were gone, Morrel ventured out from under the trees, and the moon shone upon his face, which was so pale it might have been taken for that of a ghost.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 5 "I think I may aspire to that honor," said Danglars with a smile, which reminded Monte Cristo of the sickly moons which bad artists are so fond of daubing into their pictures of ruins.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 66. Matrimonial Projects. 6 Instead of lights at every window, as is customary on days of ceremony, he saw only a gray mass, which was veiled also by a cloud, which at that moment obscured the moon's feeble light.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 7 It was dark, but at eleven o'clock the moon rose in the midst of the ocean, whose every wave she silvered, and then, "ascending high," played in floods of pale light on the rocky hills of this second Pelion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 8 The door, as it opened, disclosed a gloomy sky, in which the moon strove vainly to struggle through a sea of clouds that covered her with billows of vapor which she illumined for an instant, only to sink into obscurity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil. 9 Conjecture soon became certainty, for the figure of a man was distinctly visible to Franz, gradually emerging from the staircase opposite, upon which the moon was at that moment pouring a full tide of silvery brightness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 10 By a chance, which added yet more to the intensity of the darkness, the moon, which was on the wane, did not rise until eleven o'clock, and the streets which the young man traversed were plunged in the deepest obscurity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 11 From time to time, by the light of the moon, which began to rise, Franz imagined that he saw something like a sentinel appear at various points among the ruins, and suddenly retreat into the darkness on a signal from Peppino.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 12 The lower part of his dress was more distinctly visible by the bright rays of the moon, which, entering through the broken ceiling, shed their refulgent beams on feet cased in elegantly made boots of polished leather, over which descended fashionably cut trousers of black cloth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 13 The faint glimpses of the pale moon, hidden momentarily by masses of dark clouds that were sweeping across the sky, whitened the gravel walks that led to the house, but were unable to pierce the obscurity of the thick shrubberies, in which a man could conceal himself without any fear of discovery.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.