1 Some one was walking down before them, and this person, hearing the rustling of a silk dress, turned around.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds. 2 The old man was attired in a suit of glistening watered silk, trimmed with steel buttons, beautifully cut and polished.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 3 When this was done, Eugenie opened a drawer, of which she kept the key, and took from it a wadded violet silk travelling cloak.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 97. The Departure for Belgium. 4 At the sound of their steps a young woman of twenty to five and twenty, dressed in a silk morning gown, and busily engaged in plucking the dead leaves off a noisette rose-tree, raised her head.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family. 5 Caderousse, more and more astonished, went toward a large oaken cupboard, opened it, and gave the abbe a long purse of faded red silk, round which were two copper runners that had once been gilt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 27. The Story. 6 Mademoiselle Eugenie was dressed with elegant simplicity in a figured white silk dress, and a white rose half concealed in her jet black hair was her only ornament, unaccompanied by a single jewel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 96. The Contract. 7 The count hastily descended, presented himself at the already opened carriage door, and held out his hand to a young woman, completely enveloped in a green silk mantle heavily embroidered with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 8 She was sitting on a sofa placed in an angle of the room, with her legs crossed under her in the Eastern fashion, and seemed to have made for herself, as it were, a kind of nest in the rich Indian silks which enveloped her.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 9 No one could deny that the rooms were splendidly illuminated; the light streamed forth on the gilt mouldings and the silk hangings; and all the bad taste of decorations, which had only their richness to boast of, shone in its splendor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 96. The Contract. 10 Her cap was embroidered with pearls, the pins in her hair were of gold and diamonds, her girdle was of Turkey silk, with large embroidered flowers, her bodice and skirt were of cashmere, her apron of Indian muslin, and the buttons of her corset were of jewels.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 11 Tilted on one side of her head she had a small cap of gold-colored silk, embroidered with pearls; while on the other a purple rose mingled its glowing colors with the luxuriant masses of her hair, of which the blackness was so intense that it was tinged with blue.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 49. Haidee. 12 Cavalcanti, dressed in black, like one of Goethe's heroes, with varnished shoes and white silk open-worked stockings, passed a white and tolerably nice-looking hand through his light hair, and so displayed a sparkling diamond, that in spite of Monte Cristo's advice the vain young man had been unable to resist putting on his little finger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger. 13 The next morning, at nine o'clock, he entered Franz's room, followed by a tailor, who had eight or ten Roman peasant costumes on his arm; they selected two exactly alike, and charged the tailor to sew on each of their hats about twenty yards of ribbon, and to procure them two of the long silk sashes of different colors with which the lower orders decorate themselves on fete-days.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 14 The rooms had been fitted up in strict accordance with Oriental ideas; the floors were covered with the richest carpets Turkey could produce; the walls hung with brocaded silk of the most magnificent designs and texture; while around each chamber luxurious divans were placed, with piles of soft and yielding cushions, that needed only to be arranged at the pleasure or convenience of such as sought repose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 49. Haidee.