All 50 Uses of
dispose
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Well, then, see, here is a gentleman who had none of these resources at his disposal—a gentleman, only a simple magistrate, who learned more than you with all your police, and who would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph.
Chpt 11-12disposal = command
- "How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.'†
Chpt 11-12
- Two methods of self-destruction were at his disposal.
Chpt 15-16 *disposal = command
- Arrived at Leghorn, he repaired to the house of a Jew, a dealer in precious stones, to whom he disposed of four of his smallest diamonds for five thousand francs each.†
Chpt 25-26
- My first business will be to dispose of this diamond.†
Chpt 25-26
- However well disposed a person may be, why you see we leave off after a time seeing persons who are in sorrow, they make one melancholy; and so at last old Dantes was left all to himself, and I only saw from time to time strangers go up to him and come down again with some bundle they tried to hide; but I guessed what these bundles were, and that he sold by degrees what he had to pay for his subsistence.†
Chpt 27-28
- But such as is my hermitage, it is at your disposal; such as is my supper, it is yours to share, if you will.
Chpt 31-32disposal = command
- "Well, Albert," inquired Franz of his companion, "are you still disposed to go to the Colosseum by the outer wall?"†
Chpt 33-34
- "Very possibly I may not go," answered Franz; "but in case I feel disposed, give me some particulars of to-day's executions."†
Chpt 33-34
- "Gentlemen," said the Count of Monte Cristo as he entered, "I pray you excuse me for suffering my visit to be anticipated; but I feared to disturb you by presenting myself earlier at your apartments; besides, you sent me word that you would come to me, and I have held myself at your disposal."
Chpt 35-36disposal = command
- "Count, I have reflected on the matter," said Franz, "I thank you for your courtesy, but I shall content myself with accepting a place in your carriage and at your window at the Rospoli Palace, and I leave you at liberty to dispose of my place at the Piazza del Popolo."†
Chpt 35-36
- At the second turn, the count stopped the carriage, and requested permission to withdraw, leaving the vehicle at their disposal.
Chpt 35-36disposal = command
- In the meantime, dispose of my coachman, my carriage, and my servants.†
Chpt 35-36
- "His excellency the Count of Monte Cristo had," he said, "given positive orders that the carriage was to remain at their lordships' orders all day, and they could therefore dispose of it without fear of indiscretion."†
Chpt 35-36
- I come to say that to-day, and for the remainder of the Carnival, I leave the carriage entirely at your disposal.
Chpt 35-36disposal = command
- My father, the Comte de Morcerf, although of Spanish origin, possesses considerable influence, both at the court of France and Madrid, and I unhesitatingly place the best services of myself, and all to whom my life is dear, at your disposal.
Chpt 37-38
- Parbleu, at Rome you spent fifty thousand piastres in furnishing your apartments, but I presume that you are not disposed to spend a similar sum every day.†
Chpt 39-40
- "My dear Count," said Albert, "I will endeavor to return your politeness at Rome, and place my coupe at your disposal until your own be ready."
Chpt 41-42disposal = command
- "Do not think so, Bertuccio," replied the count; "for the wicked are not so easily disposed of, for God seems to have them under his special watch-care to make of them instruments of his vengeance."†
Chpt 45-46
- " "Meaning to say," rejoined Monte Cristo, "that however Thomson & French may be inclined to commit acts of imprudence and folly, the Baron Danglars is not disposed to follow their example."†
Chpt 45-46
- The period appointed by the testator for the disposal of these riches occurred only a short time ago, and they have only been employed by me within the last few years.†
Chpt 45-46
- But, perhaps, you have disposed of the coachman as well as the horses?†
Chpt 47-48
- Your kind attention, in providing for the safety of the baroness by disposing of the horses, does not seem to have made the least impression on her.†
Chpt 47-48
- …the drive of yesterday; but, after all, I ought not to blame you for the misconduct of your horses, more especially as it procured me the pleasure of an introduction to the Count of Monte Cristo,—and certainly that illustrious personage, apart from the millions he is said to be so very anxious to dispose of, seemed to me one of those curiously interesting problems I, for one, delight in solving at any risk, even if it were to necessitate another drive to the Bois behind your horses.†
Chpt 47-48
- We can dispose of the business, if we please, in an hour, for I have received a letter from M. Delaunay, in which he offers to purchase the good-will of the house, to unite with his own, for 300,000 francs.†
Chpt 49-50
- money disposes.†
Chpt 51-52 *
- Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer's or druggist's, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, purchases five or six grammes of arsenic—if he is really a cunning fellow, he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six…†
Chpt 51-52
- In the meanwhile, as the thing is difficult to find in France, and your abbe is not probably disposed to make a journey to Paris on my account, I must continue to use Monsieur Planche's anti-spasmodics; and mint and Hoffman's drops are among my favorite remedies.†
Chpt 51-52
- It happened that on this particular night the minister's box was placed at the disposal of Lucien Debray, who offered it to the Comte de Morcerf, who again, upon his mother's rejection of it, sent it to Danglars, with an intimation that he should probably do himself the honor of joining the baroness and her daughter during the evening, in the event of their accepting the box in question.
Chpt 53-54disposal = command
- "Let me assure you, madame," said Lucien, "that had I really the sum you mention at my disposal, I would employ it more profitably than in troubling myself to obtain particulars respecting the Count of Monte Cristo, whose only merit in my eyes consists in his being twice as rich as a nabob."
Chpt 53-54
- "You cannot control circumstances, my dear sir; 'man proposes, and God disposes.'†
Chpt 55-56
- I am the only person possessing the right to dispose of my daughter's hand.†
Chpt 59-60
- "Sir," said the notary, "how do you intend disposing of your fortune in case Mademoiselle de Villefort still determines on marrying M. Franz?"†
Chpt 59-60
- You will, of course, dispose of it in some way or other?†
Chpt 59-60
- You only intend, then, to dispose of that part of your fortune which the law allows you to subtract from the inheritance of your son?†
Chpt 59-60
- Do you still wish to dispose of all?†
Chpt 59-60
- They were yours, you disposed of them according to your fancy, and I asked no questions; but it is not the less true that you have this year received 500,000 livres.†
Chpt 65-66
- "Listen," said Morcerf—"if Mademoiselle Danglars were disposed to take pity on my supposed martyrdom on her account, and would dispense with all matrimonial formalities between our two families, I am ready to agree to the arrangement.†
Chpt 67-68
- We will not constrain you to help us; we enroll no one against his conscience, but we will compel you to act generously, even if you are not disposed to do so.†
Chpt 75-76
- If Beauchamp be disposed to retract, you ought at least to give him the opportunity of doing it of his own free will,—the satisfaction to you will be the same.†
Chpt 77-78
- "My dear viscount," said Monte Cristo gravely, "you must have seen before to-day that at all times and in all places I have been at your disposal, but the service which you have just demanded of me is one which it is out of my power to render you."
Chpt 77-78disposal = command
- "Listen," said Monte Cristo; "I have had little to do with it, for I am at variance both with the father-in-law and the young man; there is only Mademoiselle Eugenie, who appears but little charmed with the thoughts of matrimony, and who, seeing how little I was disposed to persuade her to renounce her dear liberty, retains any affection for me."†
Chpt 85-86
- He concluded by calling for an investigation, which might dispose of the calumnious report before it had time to spread, and restore M. de Morcerf to the position he had long held in public opinion.†
Chpt 85-86
- "You mistake, sir," said Morcerf with a gloomy smile; "I am not referring in the least to matrimony, and I only addressed myself to M. Cavalcanti because he appeared disposed to interfere between us.†
Chpt 87-88
- "Morrel," said Chateau-Renaud, "will you apprise the Count of Monte Cristo that M. de Morcerf is arrived, and we are at his disposal?"
Chpt 89-90disposal = command
- My dear fellow, let them sleep on, if they are asleep; let them grow pale in their drowsiness, if they are disposed to do so, and pray do you remain in peace, who have no remorse to disturb you.†
Chpt 93-94
- Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life—for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes—I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free.†
Chpt 95-96
- This is the way such affairs are generally arranged when it is wished to do them stylishly: Your two solicitors appoint a meeting, when the contract is signed, for the next or the following day; then they exchange the two portions, for which they each give a receipt; then, when the marriage is celebrated, they place the amount at your disposal as the chief member of the alliance.
Chpt 95-96disposal = command
- And her glance was turned towards heaven, where a mysterious providence disposes all things, and out of a fault, nay, even a vice, sometimes produces a blessing.†
Chpt 99-100
- "Sir," he said, "are you disposed to confer a great obligation on an unhappy father who has just lost his daughter?†
Chpt 103-104
Definitions:
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(dispose as in: disposed the troops along...) the arrangement, positioning, or use of thingseditor's notes: This sense of dispose can be used in the form disposal to indicate that a person can use something as they wish -- as in:
- I am at your disposal.
- She has many assets at her disposal.
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(dispose as in: dispose of the waste) to throw away