All 3 Uses of
egress
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.†
Chpt 39-40 *
- A small, low door gave egress from the walled space we have been describing into the projected street, the ground having been abandoned as unproductive by its various renters, and had now fallen so completely in general estimation as to return not even the one-half per cent it had originally paid.†
Chpt 51-52
- Not only was the first gendarme still there, but the young man now perceived a second yellow, blue, and white uniform at the foot of the staircase, the only one by which he could descend, while a third, on horseback, holding a musket in his fist, was posted as a sentinel at the great street door which alone afforded the means of egress.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(egress) to exit