All 9 Uses of
filial
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Well, then, if you felt so sure," replied the new-comer, putting his cane in a corner and his hat on a chair, "allow me to say, my dear Gerard, that it was not very filial of you to keep me waiting at the door."†
Chpt 11-12 *
- At this spot, so pregnant with fond and filial remembrances, his heart beat almost to bursting, his knees tottered under him, a mist floated over his sight, and had he not clung for support to one of the trees, he would inevitably have fallen to the ground and been crushed beneath the many vehicles continually passing there.†
Chpt 25-26
- The young man, standing up before her, gazed upon her with that filial affection which is so tender and endearing with children whose mothers are still young and handsome.†
Chpt 41-42
- Valentine could not help casting one glance towards the young man, whose filial enthusiasm it was delightful to behold.†
Chpt 75-76
- "Well," replied Mercedes, sighing, "go, Albert; I will not make you a slave to your filial piety."†
Chpt 87-88
- Bowing under the weight of twenty-four years' reminiscences, he thought not of Albert, of Beauchamp, of Chateau-Renaud, or of any of that group; but he thought of that courageous woman who had come to plead for her son's life, to whom he had offered his, and who had now saved it by the revelation of a dreadful family secret, capable of destroying forever in that young man's heart every feeling of filial piety.†
Chpt 89-90
- Yet these two noble and intelligent creatures, united by the indissoluble ties of maternal and filial love, had succeeded in tacitly understanding one another, and economizing their stores, and Albert had been able to tell his mother without extorting a change of countenance,—"Mother, we have no more money."†
Chpt 105-106
- "You cannot imagine, mother, how beautiful I think you!" said the young man, impressed with a profound feeling of filial love.†
Chpt 105-106
- …thou who, like beings of a superior order to ourselves, couldst understand the science of good and evil; if in the depths of the tomb there still remain something within us which can respond to the voice of those who are left on earth; if after death the soul ever revisit the places where we have lived and suffered,—then, noble heart, sublime soul, then I conjure thee by the paternal love thou didst bear me, by the filial obedience I vowed to thee, grant me some sign, some revelation!†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(filial) relating to the relationship of children to their parents