All 11 Uses of
adversary
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Sire, go, leave France to its real master, to him who acquired it, not by purchase, but by right of conquest; go, sire, not that you incur any risk, for your adversary is powerful enough to show you mercy, but because it would be humiliating for a grandson of Saint Louis to owe his life to the man of Arcola, Marengo, Austerlitz.'†
Chpt 11-12
- Calm and resolute, he treated any peril as he would an adversary in a duel,—calculated its probable method of approach; retreated, if at all, as a point of strategy and not from cowardice; was quick to see an opening for attack, and won victory at a single thrust.†
Chpt 31-32
- Villefort's astonishment redoubled at this second thrust so forcibly made by his strange adversary.†
Chpt 47-48
- I have only two adversaries—I will not say two conquerors, for with perseverance I subdue even them,—they are time and distance.†
Chpt 47-48 *
- Come, if so you will, count, and continue this conversation at my house, any day you may be willing to see an adversary capable of understanding and anxious to refute you, and I will show you my father, M. Noirtier de Villefort, one of the most fiery Jacobins of the French Revolution; that is to say, he had the most remarkable audacity, seconded by a most powerful organization—a man who has not, perhaps, like yourself seen all the kingdoms of the earth, but who has helped to overturn…†
Chpt 47-48
- The lantern was placed on the ground, the two adversaries took their stations, and the duel began.†
Chpt 75-76
- The witnesses thought he was dead, but his adversary, who knew he had not struck him, offered him the assistance of his hand to rise.†
Chpt 75-76
- The circumstance irritated instead of calming the general, and he rushed on his adversary.†
Chpt 75-76
- Then, as he rolled on the ground, his adversary seized him by the hair, and struck him a third blow in the chest.†
Chpt 81-82
- Eugenie bowed, not as a submissive daughter, but as an adversary prepared for a discussion.†
Chpt 95-96
- "Or kill yourself!" said Eugenie (in a tone which a Vestal in the amphitheatre would have used, when urging the victorious gladiator to finish his vanquished adversary).†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(adversary) an opponent