All 4 Uses of
boon
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He consigned his unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, and found them all insufficient, because after torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least the boon of unconsciousness.†
Chpt 15-16
- God grants me the boon of vision unrestricted by time or space.†
Chpt 19-20 *
- As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions.†
Chpt 45-46
- Towards the house the chestnut-trees we have before mentioned rose high above the wall, without in any way affecting the growth of other luxuriant shrubs and flowers that eagerly dressed forward to fill up the vacant spaces, as though asserting their right to enjoy the boon of light and air.†
Chpt 51-52
Definition:
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(boon) something that is of great benefit