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1  Noirtier's weakness of mind sufficiently explains it.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
2  Dantes strove to do this with his nails, but they were too weak.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
3  Oh, this time, doctor, you shall not have to reproach me with weakness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal.
4  This is not my weakness, I tell you at once; family joys have no charm for me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 95. Father and Daughter.
5  It is thus that human weakness fails, from its debilitated and imperfect organs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
6  She was said to have a weak chest, and like Antonia in the "Cremona Violin," she would die one day while singing.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger.
7  Then she rang for her lady's maid, and, weak as she was, she dressed, in order to be ready for whatever might happen.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
8  You are right," said the countess, "and my fears are weakness, especially when directed against a man who has saved your life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41. The Presentation.
9  Any one else would have hastened to receive him; but Villefort was a man of ability, and he knew this would be a sign of weakness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13. The Hundred Days.
10  It was illuminated by lamps with ground-glass shades which gave only a feeble light, as if out of consideration for the envoy's weak sight.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 69. The Inquiry.
11  But Valentine was so weak that this recital scarcely produced the same effect it would have done had she been in her usual state of health.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 100. The Apparition.
12  My child," exclaimed the old lady sharply, "let us hear none of the conventional objections that deter weak minds from preparing for the future.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran.
13  "'"Make no noise, sir, unless you wish me to consider you as one of the men of whom you spoke just now as cowards, who take their weakness for a shield.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement.
14  Albert, my child," said Mercedes, "if I had a stronger heart, that is the counsel I would have given you; your conscience has spoken when my voice became too weak; listen to its dictates.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 91. Mother and Son.
15  I seem to myself as though living a life of bondage, yet at the same time am so conscious of my own weakness that I fear to break the restraint in which I am held, lest I fall utterly helpless.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51. Pyramus and Thisbe.
16  Like benefactors in romances, I should have left you without seeing you again, but that would have been a virtue beyond my strength, because I am a weak and vain man, fond of the tender, kind, and thankful glances of my fellow-creatures.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 112. The Departure.
17  You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
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