1 The dishes were of silver, and the plates of Japanese china.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 2 I have been myself to the best engraver of the Palais Royal, who did the plate in my presence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 42. Monsieur Bertuccio. 3 Now when evening came Dantes put his plate on the ground near the door; the jailer, as he entered, stepped on it and broke it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 4 First you break your jug, then you make me break your plate; if all the prisoners followed your example, the government would be ruined.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 5 He was just taking one up and looking for the point to aim at on a little iron plate which served him as a target, when his study door opened, and Baptistin entered.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 89. A Nocturnal Interview. 6 The jailer was accustomed to pour the contents of the saucepan into Dantes' plate, and Dantes, after eating his soup with a wooden spoon, washed the plate, which thus served for every day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 7 Monte Cristo took the pistols he held in his hand when Mercedes entered, and fixing an ace of clubs against the iron plate, with four shots he successively shot off the four sides of the club.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 90. The Meeting. 8 Hunger made viands once repugnant, now acceptable; he held the plate in his hand for an hour at a time, and gazed thoughtfully at the morsel of bad meat, of tainted fish, of black and mouldy bread.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 9 The count told Baptistin to leave the plate within reach of his guest, who began by sipping the Alicante with an expression of great satisfaction, and then delicately steeped his biscuit in the wine.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 55. Major Cavalcanti. 10 In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. 11 In order to meet the payments then due; he had collected all his resources, and, fearing lest the report of his distress should get bruited abroad at Marseilles when he was known to be reduced to such an extremity, he went to the Beaucaire fair to sell his wife's and daughter's jewels and a portion of his plate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.