1 Come," he said, "it is only a veiled lady, some foreign princess, perhaps the mother of Cavalcanti.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 109. The Assizes. 2 Almost directly afterwards, without the usual interval of time, a cab arrived, and the veiled lady ran hastily up-stairs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds. 3 It was the portrait of a young woman of five or six and twenty, with a dark complexion, and light and lustrous eyes, veiled beneath long lashes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 4 The painful catastrophe he had just witnessed appeared effectually to have rent away the veil which the intoxication of the evening before had raised between himself and his memory.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 5 Suffer me, also, madame," replied Villefort, "to add my earnest request to Mademoiselle de Saint-Meran's, that you will kindly allow the veil of oblivion to cover and conceal the past.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi. 6 Instead of lights at every window, as is customary on days of ceremony, he saw only a gray mass, which was veiled also by a cloud, which at that moment obscured the moon's feeble light.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 7 the Count smiled, as he was in the habit of doing when he did not want to make any reply, and he again turned towards the veiled woman, who soon disappeared at the corner of the street.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 112. The Departure. 8 Franz and Albert were like men who, to drive away a violent sorrow, have recourse to wine, and who, as they drink and become intoxicated, feel a thick veil drawn between the past and the present.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 9 It seemed to Franz that he closed his eyes, and in a last look about him saw the vision of modesty completely veiled; and then followed a dream of passion like that promised by the Prophet to the elect.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 10 Before he had spoken a word, the count saw in the next room a veiled woman, who had followed closely after Baptistin, and now, seeing the count with a pistol in his hand and swords on the table, rushed in.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 89. A Nocturnal Interview. 11 Albert could not see the face of the countess, as it was covered with a thin veil she had put on her head, and which fell over her features in misty folds, but it seemed to him as though her voice had altered.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 41. The Presentation. 12 Then among them glided like a pure ray, like a Christian angel in the midst of Olympus, one of those chaste figures, those calm shadows, those soft visions, which seemed to veil its virgin brow before these marble wantons.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 13 He took Cucumetto one side, while the young girl, seated at the foot of a huge pine that stood in the centre of the forest, made a veil of her picturesque head-dress to hide her face from the lascivious gaze of the bandits.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 14 Twenty minutes afterwards a carriage stopped at the house, a lady alighted in a black or dark blue dress, and always thickly veiled; she passed like a shadow through the lodge, and ran up-stairs without a sound escaping under the touch of her light foot.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds. 15 Meanwhile Madame Danglars, veiled and uneasy, awaited the return of Debray in the little green room, seated between two baskets of flowers, which she had that morning sent, and which, it must be confessed, Debray had himself arranged and watered with so much care that his absence was half excused in the eyes of the poor woman.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 99. The Law. 16 Dantes possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 17 Franz did not doubt that these plans were the same concerning which the count had dropped a few words in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and while the Count was speaking the young man watched him closely, hoping to read something of his purpose in his face, but his countenance was inscrutable especially when, as in the present case, it was veiled in a sphinx-like smile.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 38. The Compact. Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.