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1  Monte Cristo entered the tower, which was divided into three stories.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ...
2  He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
3  The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ...
4  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 Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
5  Leaving the village of Linas, without stopping at the telegraph, which flourished its great bony arms as he passed, the count reached the tower of Montlhery, situated, as every one knows, upon the highest point of the plain of that name.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ...
6  The heights of Pindus towered above us; the castle of Yanina rose white and angular from the blue waters of the lake, and the immense masses of black vegetation which, viewed in the distance, gave the idea of lichens clinging to the rocks, were in reality gigantic fir-trees and myrtles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
7  In the morning, I shall rejoice in the prospect of your coming, and in the evening dwell with delight on the happiness I have enjoyed in your presence; then too, when alone, I can call forth mighty pictures of the past, see vast horizons bounded only by the towering mountains of Pindus and Olympus.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49. Haidee.
8  It was now his turn to look about him; the Hotel de Ville, a massive sixteenth century building, was on his right; any one could descend from the openings in the tower, and examine every corner of the roof below, and Andrea expected momentarily to see the head of a gendarme appear at one of these openings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
9  The count soon mastered the mechanism, the gate opened, and he then found himself in a little garden, about twenty feet long by twelve wide, bounded on one side by part of the hedge, which contained the ingenious contrivance we have called a gate, and on the other by the old tower, covered with ivy and studded with wall-flowers.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 61. How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice ...