All 12 Uses of
deign
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "If the marquise will deign to repeat the words I but imperfectly caught, I shall be delighted to answer," said M. de Villefort.†
Chpt 5-6 *
- Will your majesty deign to excuse me?†
Chpt 11-12
- Sire, the kindness your majesty deigns to evince towards me is a recompense which so far surpasses my utmost ambition that I have nothing more to ask for.†
Chpt 11-12
- "And now," he said, "may I inquire what are the orders with which your majesty deigns to honor me?"†
Chpt 11-12
- Albert, however, hoped to indemnify himself for all these slights and indifferences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the different states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot where even the wisest and gravest throw off the usual rigidity of their lives, and deign to mingle in the follies of this time of liberty and relaxation.†
Chpt 33-34
- …just as I was about to imprint a chaste salute on his lips, placed a pistol to my head, and, aided by seven or eight others, led, or rather dragged me, to the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, where I found a highly educated brigand chief perusing Caesar's 'Commentaries,' and who deigned to leave off reading to inform me, that unless the next morning, before six o'clock, four thousand piastres were paid into his account at his banker's, at a quarter past six I should have ceased to exist.†
Chpt 39-40
- Here, take this,' continued he, after rapidly writing the few lines I brought to your excellency, and upon receipt of which you deigned to receive me into your service, and proudly I ask whether your excellency has ever had cause to repent having done so?"†
Chpt 45-46
- "Will your excellency deign to open it?" said the delighted Bertuccio, "and you will find gloves in it."†
Chpt 61-62
- "Thank you, sir," said d'Avrigny; "since you have commenced your sacred office, deign to continue it.†
Chpt 103-104
- The court-yard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls, over which the sun glances obliquely, when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity.†
Chpt 107-108
- —Ed. "Madame," said the count, "it is no longer in my power to restore you to happiness, but I offer you consolation; will you deign to accept it as coming from a friend?"†
Chpt 111-112
- "Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(deign) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity