1 The side windows were hung with yellow damask, and the centre one with white damask and a red cross.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata. 2 For three days he watered this cabbage with a distillation of arsenic; on the third, the cabbage began to droop and turn yellow.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 3 A bed without curtains, four arm-chairs, and a couch, covered with yellow Utrecht velvet, composed, with a prie-Dieu, all its furniture.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 69. The Inquiry. 4 He opened the window; a bright yellow streak crossed the sky, and seemed to divide in half the poplars, which stood out in black relief on the horizon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 108. The Judge. 5 The white hair was thrown back from her yellow forehead, and her eyes, already sunken by the furrows of age, now almost disappeared beneath the eyelids swollen with grief.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. 6 The weather was dull and stormy, a cold wind shook the few remaining yellow leaves from the boughs of the trees, and scattered them among the crowd which filled the boulevards.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 7 From being slender he had now become meagre; once pale, he was now yellow; his deep-set eyes were hollow, and the gold spectacles shielding his eyes seemed to be an integral portion of his face.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 8 Your history is quite a romance, and the world, which delights in romances in yellow covers, strangely mistrusts those which are bound in living parchment, even though they be gilded like yourself.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 56. Andrea Cavalcanti. 9 Then they returned to the Rospoli Palace; but the count and the blue domino had also disappeared; the two windows, hung with yellow damask, were still occupied by the persons whom the count had invited.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 10 A gendarme is one of the most striking objects in the world, even to a man void of uneasiness; but for one who has a timid conscience, and with good cause too, the yellow, blue, and white uniform is really very alarming.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. 11 In an adjoining room Andrea saw also a tolerably clean table prepared for two, two bottles of wine sealed, the one with green, the other with yellow, a supply of brandy in a decanter, and a measure of fruit in a cabbage-leaf, cleverly arranged on an earthenware plate.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker. 12 It yet stood, under the shade of the fine avenue of lime-trees, which forms one of the most frequent walks of the idlers of Marseilles, covered by an immense vine, which spreads its aged and blackened branches over the stone front, burnt yellow by the ardent sun of the south.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 112. The Departure. 13 Fearing, however, to make use of any valuable piece of paper, I hesitated for a moment, then recollected that I had seen in the famous breviary, which was on the table beside me, an old paper quite yellow with age, and which had served as a marker for centuries, kept there by the request of the heirs.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 14 Not only was the first gendarme still there, but the young man now perceived a second yellow, blue, and white uniform at the foot of the staircase, the only one by which he could descend, while a third, on horseback, holding a musket in his fist, was posted as a sentinel at the great street door which alone afforded the means of egress.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.