All 37 Uses of
anxiety
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "You were saying, sir"—said Fernand, awaiting with great anxiety the end of this interrupted remark.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- Old Dantes was dying with anxiety to know what had become of Edmond.†
Chpt 9-10
- Which is undergoing great fatigue and anxiety, my dear duke, when we have a telegraph which transmits messages in three or four hours, and that without getting in the least out of breath.†
Chpt 9-10
- "Sire," said Villefort, "I will render a faithful report to your majesty, but I must entreat your forgiveness if my anxiety leads to some obscurity in my language."†
Chpt 9-10
- Faria started: "Have you, indeed?" cried he, raising his head with quick anxiety; "pray, let me know what it is you have discovered?"†
Chpt 15-16
- The sick man was not yet able to speak, but he pointed with evident anxiety towards the door.†
Chpt 17-18
- It was therefore near seven o'clock; but Edmond's anxiety had put all thoughts of time out of his head.†
Chpt 17-18
- Almost before the key had turned in the lock, and before the departing steps of the jailer had died away in the long corridor he had to traverse, Dantes, whose restless anxiety concerning his friend left him no desire to touch the food brought him, hurried back to the abbe's chamber, and raising the stone by pressing his head against it, was soon beside the sick man's couch.†
Chpt 17-18
- Emmanuel received him; this young man was alarmed by the appearance of every new face, for every new face might be that of a new creditor, come in anxiety to question the head of the house.†
Chpt 29-30
- On the staircase they met a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen, who looked with anxiety at the stranger.†
Chpt 29-30
- On the 1st, Morrel returned; he was awaited by his family with extreme anxiety, for from this journey to Paris they hoped great things.†
Chpt 29-30
- As for his suspicions, once on terra firma, once that he had seen the indifferent, if not friendly, appearance of his hosts, his anxiety had quite disappeared, or rather, at sight of the goat, had turned to appetite.†
Chpt 31-32
- Bertuccio, crouched in the corner of the carriage, began to examine with a feverish anxiety every house they passed.†
Chpt 43-44
- One day, Benedetto, who had been gone from the house since morning, to our great anxiety, did not return until late in the evening, dragging a monkey after him, which he said he had found chained to the foot of a tree.†
Chpt 43-44
- Oh, real enough, from anxiety doubtless,—at any rate they postponed the matter for two months.†
Chpt 53-54
- The major looked at the count with an indescribable expression of anxiety.†
Chpt 55-56
- The major awaited the conclusion of the postscript, apparently with great anxiety.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Now," said Monte Cristo "as to the mother of the young man"— "As to the mother of the young man"—repeated the Italian, with anxiety.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Then," said the young man, with anxiety, "I shall be sure to be placed in an agreeable position."†
Chpt 55-56
- He was intently watching for a shadow to appear among the trees, and awaiting with anxiety the sound of a light step on the gravel walk.†
Chpt 57-58
- Madame Danglars, in whom the events we have related had caused deep anxiety, had hesitated about going to Madame de Morcerf's, when during the morning her carriage happened to meet that of Villefort.†
Chpt 69-70
- He had himself a daughter about her age, but whose life was one continued source of anxiety and fear to him from her mother having been consumptive.†
Chpt 71-72
- Valentine was ignorant of the cause of this sorrow and anxiety, and as it was not his accustomed hour for visiting her, she had gone to the spot simply by accident or perhaps through sympathy.†
Chpt 73-74
- A cloud settled on his brow, evincing decided anxiety and uneasiness, instead of the expression of offended pride which had lately reigned there.†
Chpt 77-78
- He had not been more than ten minutes in the drawing-room before he drew Danglars aside into the recess of a bow-window, and, after an ingenious preamble, related to him all his anxieties and cares since his noble father's departure.†
Chpt 81-82
- Five minutes after the door-keeper again appeared; all eyes were fixed on the door, and I," said Beauchamp, "shared the general expectation and anxiety.†
Chpt 85-86
- "Count," said Emmanuel, when they were at the end of the Place Royale, "put me down at my door, that my wife may not have a single moment of needless anxiety on my account or yours."†
Chpt 91-92
- "So much the better; yet you have something to tell me?" replied the count with increased anxiety.†
Chpt 93-94
- I must reach Compiegne to-night, or I shall cause deep anxiety to my family.†
Chpt 97-98
- A pallor overspread the young man's forehead, and he looked around him with anxiety.†
Chpt 97-98
- The piercing eye of Monte Cristo glanced through clusters of bushes and trees, and was soon relieved from all anxiety, for seeing a shadow glide between the yew-trees, Monte Cristo recognized him whom he sought.†
Chpt 105-106
- The count's anxiety was manifested by a bright color which seldom appeared on the face of that imperturbable man.†
Chpt 105-106
- Come, ease me of my anxiety, or else frighten me at once.†
Chpt 105-106
- "Well?" asked Madame Danglars, with an anxiety easy to be understood.†
Chpt 105-106
- The assizes, also, were about to begin, and Villefort, shut up in his room, exerted himself with feverish anxiety in drawing up the case against the murderer of Caderousse.†
Chpt 107-108
- As he passed by M. Noirtier's room, he perceived two figures through the half-open door; but he experienced no curiosity to know who was visiting his father: anxiety carried him on further.†
Chpt 111-112
- He resolved to end his anxiety.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(anxiety) nervousness or worry