All 18 Uses of
benefactor
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The delighted recipients of these munificent gifts would gladly have poured out their thanks to their generous benefactor, but they had seen him, upon quitting the hut, merely give some orders to a sailor, and then springing lightly on horseback, leave Marseilles by the Porte d'Aix.†
Chpt 25-26
- Then a launch came to shore, took him on board, and conveyed him to a yacht splendidly fitted up, on whose deck he sprung with the activity of a sailor; thence he once again looked towards Morrel, who, weeping with joy, was shaking hands most cordially with all the crowd around him, and thanking with a look the unknown benefactor whom he seemed to be seeking in the skies.†
Chpt 29-30
- And yet you pity a man who, without being bitten by one of his race, has yet murdered his benefactor; and who, now unable to kill any one, because his hands are bound, wishes to see his companion in captivity perish.†
Chpt 35-36 *
- Our breakfast is a philanthropic one, and we shall have at table—at least, I hope so—two benefactors of humanity.†
Chpt 39-40
- Oh, would we could relate it everywhere, and to every one, so that the emotion of our unknown benefactor might reveal his presence.†
Chpt 49-50
- "Alas," cried Monte Cristo, striving to repress his emotion, "if Lord Wilmore was your unknown benefactor, I fear you will never see him again.†
Chpt 49-50
- My father thought that this action had been miraculously performed—he believed that a benefactor had arisen from the grave to save us.†
Chpt 49-50
- No, but he is proud of them; he is better pleased with rewards given to the benefactors of man than to his destroyers.†
Chpt 69-70
- The count watched him with a feeling of compassion, and when he had completely disappeared, read as follows:— "The French officer in the service of Ali Pasha of Yanina alluded to three weeks since in the Impartial, who not only surrendered the castle of Yanina, but sold his benefactor to the Turks, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his Christian name a title of nobility and a family name.†
Chpt 85-86
- Unfortunately, the negotiation failed, and when he returned to defend his benefactor, he was dead.†
Chpt 85-86
- …my father having consented to my being brought up in my mother's faith,—this latter has been sealed by the grand primate of Macedonia and Epirus; and lastly (and perhaps the most important), the record of the sale of my person and that of my mother to the Armenian merchant El-Kobbir, by the French officer, who, in his infamous bargain with the Porte, had reserved as his part of the booty the wife and daughter of his benefactor, whom he sold for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.'†
Chpt 85-86
- It is you who, sent by him to Constantinople, to treat with the emperor for the life or death of your benefactor, brought back a false mandate granting full pardon!†
Chpt 85-86
- Are you not the Captain Fernand who betrayed, sold, and murdered his benefactor, Ali?†
Chpt 91-92
- But since you abuse my confidence, since you have devised a new torture after I thought I had exhausted them all, then, Count of Monte Cristo my pretended benefactor—then, Count of Monte Cristo, the universal guardian, be satisfied, you shall witness the death of your friend;" and Morrel, with a maniacal laugh, again rushed towards the pistols.†
Chpt 105-106
- Morrel seized their hands, and opening the door exclaimed in a voice choked with sobs, "On your knees—on your knees—he is our benefactor—the saviour of our father!†
Chpt 105-106
- Meanwhile, Emmanuel in a broken voice said to the count, "Oh, count, how could you, hearing us so often speak of our unknown benefactor, seeing us pay such homage of gratitude and adoration to his memory,—how could you continue so long without discovering yourself to us?†
Chpt 105-106
- "Here is the relic," she said; "do not think it will be less dear to us now we are acquainted with our benefactor!"†
Chpt 105-106
- 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.†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
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(benefactor) someone who helps a person or organization -- especially financially