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1  No, you were not, for it was in reality a little boy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
2  He dwelt on this idea for a moment, then it appeared reality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
3  "Very well," returned Dantes, dropping the stool and sitting on it as if he were in reality mad.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
4  The stranger met Julie on the stairs; she pretended to be descending, but in reality she was waiting for him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
5  He approached the hole he had dug, and now, with the aid of the torch, saw that his pickaxe had in reality struck against iron and wood.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
6  She bent forwards as though to assure herself of the reality of what she saw, then, uttering a faint cry, threw herself back in her seat.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53. Robert le Diable.
7  He advanced several paces towards the point whence the light came, and to all the excitement of his dream succeeded the calmness of reality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32. The Waking.
8  Then he descended with cautious and slow step, for he dreaded lest an accident similar to that he had so adroitly feigned should happen in reality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
9  In reality," observed Albert, "he seemed to me somewhat eccentric; were he at Paris, and a frequenter of the theatres, I should say he was a poor devil literally mad.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
10  Nature subdued must yield in the combat, the dream must succeed to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, then the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
11  Then he became alarmed, and dared not stay any longer at Nimes, so he solicited a change of residence, and, as he was in reality very influential, he was nominated to Versailles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
12  Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.
13  Morrel had, in reality, no hope but the return of the Pharaon, of whose departure he had learnt from a vessel which had weighed anchor at the same time, and which had already arrived in harbor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
14  A learned man, before whom the last circumstance was mentioned as a fact, declared he had seen the quarries in question, which gave great weight to assertions hitherto somewhat doubtful, but which now assumed the garb of reality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.
15  In reality," replied the latter, who, with his aristocratic glance and his knowledge of the world, had penetrated at once all that was penetrable in Monte Cristo, "Albert has not deceived us, for the count is a most singular being.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 40. The Breakfast.
16  Dantes possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
17  This last proof, instead of giving him fresh strength, deprived him of it; the pickaxe descended, or rather fell; he placed it on the ground, passed his hand over his brow, and remounted the stairs, alleging to himself, as an excuse, a desire to be assured that no one was watching him, but in reality because he felt that he was about to faint.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
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