1 The ways of justice are frequently too dark and mysterious to be easily penetrated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 2 Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and settled on the tongue of land on which it is to this day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 3 Franz waited impatiently, inhaling the aroma of the roasted meat, when the captain returned with a mysterious air.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 4 At the stern the mysterious stranger was standing up looking towards the shore, and holding a spy-glass in his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 5 For his father's death he was in some manner prepared; but he knew not how to account for the mysterious disappearance of Mercedes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 6 Villefort took a chair, but Valentine remained standing by her father's side, and Franz before him, holding the mysterious paper in his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement. 7 No, no, I wish to do away with that mysterious reputation that you have given me, my dear viscount; it is tiresome to be always acting Manfred.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 54. A Flurry in Stocks. 8 Yet the Parisian world is so strange, that even all this might not have won attention had there not been connected with it a mysterious story gilded by an immense fortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 70. The Ball. 9 Franz passed the night in confused dreams respecting the two meetings he had already had with his mysterious tormentor, and in waking speculations as to what the morrow would produce.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 10 The person whose mysterious arrival had attracted the attention of Franz stood in a kind of half-light, that rendered it impossible to distinguish his features, although his dress was easily made out.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 11 It was the first time the hand of Franz had come in contact with that of the mysterious individual before him, and unconsciously he shuddered at its touch, for it felt cold and icy as that of a corpse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 38. The Compact. 12 Franz was sitting on the spot where he was on the previous evening when his mysterious host had invited him to supper; and he saw the little yacht, now like a sea-gull on the wave, continuing her flight towards Corsica.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 13 He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 14 Albert instantly rose to meet him, but Franz remained, in a manner, spellbound on his chair; for in the person of him who had just entered he recognized not only the mysterious visitant to the Colosseum, and the occupant of the box at the Teatro Argentino, but also his extraordinary host of Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 15 Slumber refused to visit his eyelids and the night was passed in feverish contemplation of the chain of circumstances tending to prove the identity of the mysterious visitant to the Colosseum with the inhabitant of the grotto of Monte Cristo; and the more he thought, the firmer grew his opinion on the subject.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum. 16 I grasped it in my hand, put out the flame as quickly as I could, lighted my taper in the fire itself, and opened the crumpled paper with inexpressible emotion, recognizing, when I had done so, that these characters had been traced in mysterious and sympathetic ink, only appearing when exposed to the fire; nearly one-third of the paper had been consumed by the flame.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 17 Then, instead of plunging into the mass of documents piled before him, he opened the drawer of his desk, touched a spring, and drew out a parcel of cherished memoranda, amongst which he had carefully arranged, in characters only known to himself, the names of all those who, either in his political career, in money matters, at the bar, or in his mysterious love affairs, had become his enemies.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.