1 He, too, ten years ago, had piously sought out a tomb, and sought it vainly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 113. The Past. 2 de Villefort had long since had a tomb prepared for the reception of his family.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault. 3 The road which the carriage now traversed was the ancient Appian Way, and bordered with tombs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 4 He then took an oath of bitter vengeance over the dead body of the one and the tomb of the other.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 5 After his wife the banker descended, as pale as though he had issued from his tomb instead of his carriage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 62. Ghosts. 6 The vision had fled; and as if the statues had been but shadows from the tomb, they had vanished at his waking.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 7 It seemed as though Rome, under the magic breath of some demon of the night, had suddenly changed into a vast tomb.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 37. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian. 8 On entering his house, he met Morrel, who wandered about like a ghost awaiting the heavenly mandate for return to the tomb.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 111. Expiation. 9 To call Edward he must reawaken the echo of that room which now appeared like a sepulchre; to speak seemed like violating the silence of the tomb.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 111. Expiation. 10 Monte Cristo concealed himself behind a large tomb and awaited the arrival of Morrel, who by degrees approached the tomb now abandoned by spectators and workmen.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 11 An indescribable ray of joy illumined that wretched countenance like the last ray of the sun before it disappears behind the clouds which bear the aspect, not of a downy couch, but of a tomb.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 92. The Suicide. 12 Well, the French did not avenge themselves on the traitor, the Spaniards did not shoot the traitor, Ali in his tomb left the traitor unpunished; but I, betrayed, sacrificed, buried, have risen from my tomb, by the grace of God, to punish that man.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 89. A Nocturnal Interview. 13 The shadow Monte Cristo had noticed passed rapidly behind the tomb of Abelard and Heloise, placed itself close to the heads of the horses belonging to the hearse, and following the undertaker's men, arrived with them at the spot appointed for the burial.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 14 Here were not, as in other tombs, ignoble drawers, one above another, where thrift bestows its dead and labels them like specimens in a museum; all that was visible within the bronze gates was a gloomy-looking room, separated by a wall from the vault itself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault. 15 All I can say is," continued the countess, taking up the lorgnette, and directing it toward the box in question, "that the gentleman, whose history I am unable to furnish, seems to me as though he had just been dug up; he looks more like a corpse permitted by some friendly grave-digger to quit his tomb for a while, and revisit this earth of ours, than anything human.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.