All 19 Uses of
domestic
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- These animals, though wild and agile as chamois, were too much like domestic goats, and Franz could not consider them as game.†
Chpt 31-32
- The curate related the incident to the Count of San-Felice, who sent for the little shepherd, made him read and write before him, ordered his attendant to let him eat with the domestics, and to give him two piastres a month.†
Chpt 33-34
- Teresa saw herself rich, superbly attired, and attended by a train of liveried domestics.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- The domestic bowed respectfully, and invited them to enter.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- "And your excellency has one, which was let to Prince Lobanieff; but I was obliged to pay a hundred"— "That will do—that will do, Monsieur Bertuccio; spare these gentlemen all such domestic arrangements.†
Chpt 35-36
- A most edifying representative I shall make of all the domestic virtues—don't you think so?†
Chpt 37-38
- "I forgot to mention to you," said the count, "that I lay yearly aside a certain sum for each servant in my establishment; those whom I am compelled to dismiss lose (as a matter of course) all participation in this money, while their portion goes to the fund accumulating for those domestics who remain with me, and among whom it will be divided at my death.†
Chpt 45-46
- This address, delivered in the presence of Ali, who, not understanding one word of the language in which it was spoken, stood wholly unmoved, produced an effect on M. Baptistin only to be conceived by such as have occasion to study the character and disposition of French domestics.†
Chpt 45-46
- "I see; to your domestics you are 'my lord,' the journalists style you 'monsieur,' while your constituents call you 'citizen.'†
Chpt 45-46
- —M. Debray?" inquired Danglars, with an air of indulgence and good-nature that made Monte Cristo smile, acquainted as he was with the secrets of the banker's domestic life.†
Chpt 45-46
- The domestic peace of this family is henceforth in my hands.†
Chpt 47-48
- …at so fearful a rate, that there seemed no other prospect for myself and my poor Edward but that of being dashed to pieces against the first object that impeded their progress, when a strange-looking man,—an Arab, a negro, or a Nubian, at least a black of some nation or other—at a signal from the count, whose domestic he is, suddenly seized and stopped the infuriated animals, even at the risk of being trampled to death himself; and certainly he must have had a most wonderful escape.†
Chpt 47-48
- But excuse me, sir, for talking of our domestic misfortunes; I interrupted you at the moment when you were telling me that you were a skilful chemist.†
Chpt 51-52
- In short, Madame Danglars, not being able personally to examine in detail the domestic economy and household arrangements of a man who gave away horses worth 30,000 francs and who went to the opera with a Greek slave wearing diamonds to the amount of a million of money, had deputed those eyes, by which she was accustomed to see, to give her a faithful account of the mode of life of this incomprehensible person.†
Chpt 53-54
- Villefort did not need the help of either Valentine or the domestic in order to carry on with his father the strange conversation which he was about to begin.†
Chpt 57-58
- Most probably Morrel and Chateau-Renaud returned to their "domestic hearths," as they say in the gallery of the Chamber in well-turned speeches, and in the theatre of the Rue Richelieu in well-written pieces; but it was not the case with Debray.†
Chpt 65-66
- Noirtier, burning with impatience and terror, was in despair at his utter inability to help his old domestic, whom he regarded more in the light of a friend than a servant.†
Chpt 79-80
- My wish was not to confine myself to domestic cares, or the caprices of any man, but to be an artist, and consequently free in heart, in person, and in thought.†
Chpt 93-94
- It is natural enough; this strange chain of domestic afflictions, followed by the no less strange death of his daughter"— "Strange?†
Chpt 109-110
Definitions:
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(domestic as in: domestic happiness) relating to a home or family
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(domestic as in: the domestic market) relating to a home country
or (much more rarely,): relating to a geographic area that is smaller than a country