1 Having said this, the abbe bowed to imply he wished to pursue his studies.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 69. The Inquiry. 2 I know it well; I have studied it in all its forms and in the effects which it produces.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 79. The Lemonade. 3 There was a study for Emmanuel, who never studied, and a music-room for Julie, who never played.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family. 4 When he had run over all these names in his memory, again read and studied them, commenting meanwhile upon his lists, he shook his head.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. 5 We have said that Teresa was handsome, but this is not all; Teresa was endowed with all those wild graces which are so much more potent than our affected and studied elegancies.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 6 Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 7 Now, in spite of the nobility of his countenance, the command of which, like a finished actor, he had carefully studied before the glass, it was by no means easy for him to assume an air of judicial severity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 8 de Villefort, who examined him attentively, and who no doubt practiced upon him all the psychological studies he was accustomed to use, in vain endeavored to make him lower his eyes, notwithstanding the depth and profundity of his gaze.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 110. The Indictment. 9 Dantes employed it in manoeuvring his yacht round the island, studying it as a skilful horseman would the animal he destined for some important service, till at the end of that time he was perfectly conversant with its good and bad qualities.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 25. The Unknown. 10 I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 11 In ten minutes after the strangers had departed, Franz was on the road to the Piazza de Spagni, listening with studied indifference to the learned dissertation delivered by Albert, after the manner of Pliny and Calpurnius, touching the iron-pointed nets used to prevent the ferocious beasts from springing on the spectators.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.