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1  Porthos would have given ten years of his life to possess this sword.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
2  de Bassompierre had been talked of twenty years before, and that was not saying a little.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
3  His interlocutor, whose head appeared through the carriage window, was a woman of from twenty to two-and-twenty years.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
4  Although this man was scarcely thirty-six or thirty-seven years of age, hair, mustaches, and royal, all began to be gray.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 14 THE MAN OF MEUNG
5  Anne of Austria was then twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age; that is to say, she was in the full splendor of her beauty.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
6  D'Artagnan, with a sigh, donned his uniform, which he would have exchanged for that of a Musketeer at the expense of ten years of his existence.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
7  The accused replied that his name was Jacques Michel Bonacieux, that he was fifty-one years old, a retired mercer, and lived Rue des Fossoyeurs, No.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
8  Although Athos was scarcely thirty years old, and was of great personal beauty and intelligence of mind, no one knew whether he had ever had a mistress.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
9  She was a charming woman of twenty-five or twenty-six years, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a nose slightly turned up, admirable teeth, and a complexion marbled with rose and opal.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
10  During the five or six years that he had lived in the strictest intimacy with his companions, Porthos and Aramis, they could remember having often seen him smile, but had never heard him laugh.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
11  He fixed his haughty eye upon the stranger, and perceived a man of from forty to forty-five years of age, with black and piercing eyes, pale complexion, a strongly marked nose, and a black and well-shaped mustache.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
12  He was a Berrichon, thirty-five or forty years old, mild, peaceable, sleek, employing the leisure his master left him in the perusal of pious works, providing rigorously for two a dinner of few dishes, but excellent.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
13  As perhaps our readers are not familiar with the slang of the Rue de Jerusalem, and as it is fifteen years since we applied this word for the first time to this thing, allow us to explain to them what is a mousetrap.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
14  My son," said the old Gascon gentleman, in that pure Bearn PATOIS of which Henry IV could never rid himself, "this horse was born in the house of your father about thirteen years ago, and has remained in it ever since, which ought to make you love it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
15  d'Artagnan the elder, "--an honor to which, remember, your ancient nobility gives you the right--sustain worthily your name of gentleman, which has been worthily borne by your ancestors for five hundred years, both for your own sake and the sake of those who belong to you."
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
16  It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair in his tail, but not without windgalls on his legs, which, though going with his head lower than his knees, rendering a martingale quite unnecessary, contrived nevertheless to perform his eight leagues a day.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
17  That's well said," cried the king, who had heard all these compliments through the open door; "only tell him, Treville, since he wishes to be considered your friend, that I also wish to be one of his, but he neglects me; that it is nearly three years since I have seen him, and that I never do see him unless I send for him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
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