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1  Yes; but at that period we were not at war.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
2  Yes, and France is about to pay for her king's refusal with a war.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
3  In the eyes of everybody this was a declaration of war between the two kingdoms.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
4  An enemy who has insulted me so cruelly that between him and me it is war to the death.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
5  Like the ancient paladins, he has only undertaken this war to obtain a look from his lady love.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
6  But this war may bring round a peace; this peace will require a negotiator; that negotiator will be me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
7  These two women gave him more uneasiness than the war with Spain, the quarrel with England, or the embarrassment of the finances.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
8  There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardinal; there was Spain, which made war against the king.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
9  Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon everybody.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
10  Treville understood admirably the war method of that period, in which he who could not live at the expense of the enemy must live at the expense of his compatriots.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
11  However proud you may be, you will not refuse to accept one of them, and to request your three companions to accept the others--that is, in order to make war against us.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
12  It became necessary, therefore, to destroy this last bulwark of Calvinism--a dangerous leaven with which the ferments of civil revolt and foreign war were constantly mingling.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
13  Nevertheless, Monsieur de Treville's company of Musketeers alone cannot maintain a war against the cardinal, who disposes of the forces of all France, and before whom the queen is without power and the king without will.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 39 A VISION
14  As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the Huguenots exterminate the Catholics--all in the name of religion--he adopted a mixed belief which permitted him to be sometimes Catholic, sometimes a Huguenot.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 25 PORTHOS
15  Her hotel was remarkably sumptuous, and while the most part of the English had quit, or were about to quit, France on account of the war, Milady had just been laying out much money upon her residence; which proved that the general measure which drove the English from France did not affect her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
16  This event had hastened the resolutions of the cardinal; and till the king and he could take the command of the siege of La Rochelle, which was determined, he had sent Monsieur to direct the first operations, and had ordered all the troops he could dispose of to march toward the theater of war.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
17  The queen pressed her brother and the Emperor of Austria to appear to be wounded, as they really were, by the policy of Richelieu--the eternal object of which was the abasement of the house of Austria--to declare war against France, and as a condition of peace, to insist upon the dismissal of the cardinal; but as to love, there was not a single word about it in all the letter.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
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