1 He thought himself in a sepulchre, into which a ray of sunlight in pity scarcely penetrated.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 2 The day passed thus; he scarcely tasted food, but walked round and round the cell like a wild beast in its cage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 3 He had scarcely done so before the door opened, and the jailer saw the prisoner seated as usual on the side of his bed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 4 Then, compelled to quit Rome, he went and got himself obscurely killed in a night skirmish, scarcely noticed in history.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 5 By a movement for which he could scarcely account to himself, the young Catalan placed his hand on the knife at his belt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 3. The Catalans. 6 The tenants of the humble lodging were a young couple who had been scarcely married a week; and seeing them, Dantes sighed heavily.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 7 An overhanging rock offered him a temporary shelter, and scarcely had he availed himself of it when the tempest burst forth in all its fury.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 8 One evening a wolf emerged from a pine-wood hear which they were usually stationed, but the wolf had scarcely advanced ten yards ere he was dead.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 9 In the centre of the cell, in a circle traced with a fragment of plaster detached from the wall, sat a man whose tattered garments scarcely covered him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 10 The supper appeared to have been supplied solely for Franz, for the unknown scarcely touched one or two dishes of the splendid banquet to which his guest did ample justice.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 11 He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 22. The Smugglers. 12 Luigi threw his cloak on the ground, placed his carbine on his shoulder, and freed from his heavy covering, preceded the traveller with the rapid step of a mountaineer, which a horse can scarcely keep up with.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 13 made but a faint attempt to parry this unexpected blow; the monarchy he had scarcely reconstructed tottered on its precarious foundation, and at a sign from the emperor the incongruous structure of ancient prejudices and new ideas fell to the ground.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days. 14 To this question the smugglers replied that, although successful in landing their cargo in safety, they had scarcely done so when they received intelligence that a guard-ship had just quitted the port of Toulon and was crowding all sail towards them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 15 If they took him to the cemetery and laid him in a grave, he would allow himself to be covered with earth, and then, as it was night, the grave-diggers could scarcely have turned their backs before he would have worked his way through the yielding soil and escaped.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If. 16 The dining-room was scarcely less striking than the room he had just left; it was entirely of marble, with antique bas-reliefs of priceless value; and at the four corners of this apartment, which was oblong, were four magnificent statues, having baskets in their hands.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 17 Well, I selected the cartilages of the heads of these fishes, and you can scarcely imagine the delight with which I welcomed the arrival of each Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, as affording me the means of increasing my stock of pens; for I will freely confess that my historical labors have been my greatest solace and relief.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.