All 4 Uses of
exalt
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- No distraction could come to his aid; his energetic spirit, that would have exalted in thus revisiting the past, was imprisoned like an eagle in a cage.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- "Gentlemen," he said, "you will admit that, when arrived at a certain degree of fortune, the superfluities of life are all that can be desired; and the ladies will allow that, after having risen to a certain eminence of position, the ideal alone can be more exalted.†
Chpt 63-64
- "Madame," said Villefort, "you must lay aside these exalted ideas, which almost assume the appearance of madness.†
Chpt 71-72
- Mercedes, although deposed from the exalted position she had occupied, lost in the sphere she had now chosen, like a person passing from a room splendidly lighted into utter darkness, appeared like a queen, fallen from her palace to a hovel, and who, reduced to strict necessity, could neither become reconciled to the earthen vessels she was herself forced to place upon the table, nor to the humble pallet which had become her bed.†
Chpt 105-106
Definition:
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(exalt) praise, glorify, or honor
or:
fill with extreme happiness