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 It is needless to add that there were gold and silver fish in the basin.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family. 3 Between the two baskets he placed a small silver cup with a silver cover.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 4 No nonsense, my good fellow; silver simply, round coins with the head of some monarch or other on them.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. 5 As Bertuccio was leaving the room to give the requisite orders, Baptistin opened the door: he held a letter on a silver waiter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 6 While in that service he had discovered a silver mine in the mountains of Thessaly, but he had been careful to conceal it from every one.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 69. The Inquiry. 7 They were armed with their long guns inlaid with mother-of-pearl and silver, and cartridges in great numbers were lying scattered on the floor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 8 But it seems you have come back rich, my boy, continued the tailor, looking askance at the handful of gold and silver which Dantes had thrown on the table.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 2. Father and Son. 9 These are our arms, that is, those of my father, but they are, as you see, joined to another shield, which has gules, a silver tower, which are my mother's.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 10 There for some time he enjoyed the fresh breeze which played on his brow, and listened to the dash of the waves on the beach, that left against the rocks a lace of foam as white as silver.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 11 It was dark, but at eleven o'clock the moon rose in the midst of the ocean, whose every wave she silvered, and then, "ascending high," played in floods of pale light on the rocky hills of this second Pelion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 12 Then he ran to one of the cupboards in Valentine's room, which had been transformed into a medicine closet, and taking from its silver case a small bottle of nitric acid, dropped a little of it into the liquor, which immediately changed to a blood-red color.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 102. Valentine. 13 She wore a blue and white-striped vest, with long open sleeves, trimmed with silver loops and buttons of pearls, and a sort of bodice, which, closing only from the centre to the waist, exhibited the whole of the ivory throat and upper part of the bosom; it was fastened with three magnificent diamond clasps.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 49. Haidee. 14 Morrel obeyed; the count arose, and unlocking a closet with a key suspended from his gold chain, took from it a little silver casket, beautifully carved and chased, the corners of which represented four bending figures, similar to the Caryatides, the forms of women, symbols of the angels aspiring to heaven.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 15 Haidee was reclining upon soft downy cushions, covered with blue satin spotted with silver; her head, supported by one of her exquisitely moulded arms, rested on the divan immediately behind her, while the other was employed in adjusting to her lips the coral tube of a rich narghile, through whose flexible pipe she drew the smoke fragrant by its passage through perfumed water.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 49. Haidee.