All 28 Uses of
induce
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I know nothing for certain; only I have seen things which induce me to believe, as I told you, that the future captain will find some annoyance in the vicinity of the Vieilles Infirmeries.†
Chpt 1-2
- Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding-party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantes, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.†
Chpt 5-6
- "Why, they induced General Quesnel to go there, and General Quesnel, who quitted his own house at nine o'clock in the evening, was found the next day in the Seine."†
Chpt 11-12
- I swear to you by him who died for us that naught shall induce me to breathe one syllable to my jailers; but I conjure you do not abandon me.†
Chpt 15-16
- No, I repeat again, that nothing shall induce me to renew attempts evidently at variance with the Almighty's pleasure."†
Chpt 15-16
- The pope heaped attentions upon Rospigliosi and Spada, conferred upon them the insignia of the cardinalate, and induced them to arrange their affairs and take up their residence at Rome.†
Chpt 17-18
- The term for which Edmond had engaged to serve on board The Young Amelia having expired, Dantes took leave of the captain, who at first tried all his powers of persuasion to induce him to remain as one of the crew, but having been told the history of the legacy, he ceased to importune him further.†
Chpt 25-26
- Though answered in the negative, he begged so earnestly to be permitted to visit those on the fifth floor, that, in despite of the oft-repeated assurance of the concierge that they were occupied, Dantes succeeded in inducing the man to go up to the tenants, and ask permission for a gentleman to be allowed to look at them.†
Chpt 25-26
- One was a young man of three or four and twenty, who was in love with M. Morrel's daughter, and had remained with him in spite of the efforts of his friends to induce him to withdraw; the other was an old one-eyed cashier, called "Cocles," or "Cock-eye," a nickname given him by the young men who used to throng this vast now almost deserted bee-hive, and which had so completely replaced his real name that he would not, in all probability, have replied to any one who addressed him by it.†
Chpt 29-30
- This was a useless clause in the bargain, for whenever the coward sees the first glimpse of the shores of Africa, he runs down below, and can only be induced to appear again when we are out of sight of that quarter of the globe.†
Chpt 31-32
- As to Franz, he had no longer any inducement to remain at Monte Cristo.†
Chpt 31-32 *
- This fresh allusion to Byron [*] drew a smile to Franz's countenance; although he could but allow that if anything was likely to induce belief in the existence of vampires, it would be the presence of such a man as the mysterious personage before him.†
Chpt 33-34
- Three or four times he has said to me, and certainly without the slightest premeditation, 'at such a period I was five years old, at another ten years old, at another twelve,' and I, induced by curiosity, which kept me alive to these details, have compared the dates, and never found him inaccurate.†
Chpt 41-42
- Meanwhile the count had arrived at his house; it had taken him six minutes to perform the distance, but these six minutes were sufficient to induce twenty young men who knew the price of the equipage they had been unable to purchase themselves, to put their horses in a gallop in order to see the rich foreigner who could afford to give 20,000 francs apiece for his horses.†
Chpt 41-42
- …in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated "dappled grays," now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was…†
Chpt 47-48
- Make no allusion to the past; nor upon any occasion be induced to pronounce the names of your illustrious father or ill-fated mother.†
Chpt 49-50
- That is the reason which has induced you to leave Via Reggio, where you have lived since the death of your wife.†
Chpt 55-56
- You have, then, been induced to alter your opinion; you have had some proofs of their truth?†
Chpt 55-56
- It is hoped that no ties of friendship or humane consideration will induce you to conceal the truth.†
Chpt 69-70
- Well, I am charged with the commission of endeavoring to induce the Comte de Morcerf to make some definite arrangement with the baron.†
Chpt 77-78
- "Count," said the banker, "things are constantly occurring in the world to induce us to lay aside our most established opinions, or at all events to cause us to remodel them according to the change of circumstances, which may have placed affairs in a totally different light to that in which we at first viewed them."†
Chpt 77-78
- What you have just said induces me to hope that you intend breakfasting with me.†
Chpt 77-78
- No entreaty, no proposition of increased wages, could induce them to remain; to every argument they replied, "We must go, for death is in this house."†
Chpt 79-80
- He was induced to undertake this journey, of which the day before he had not even thought and which had not occurred to Andrea either, by the arrival of Bertuccio from Normandy with intelligence respecting the house and sloop.†
Chpt 81-82
- Yes; M. Danglars is a money-lover, and those who love money, you know, think too much of what they risk to be easily induced to fight a duel.†
Chpt 87-88
- It is not Fernand Mondego's treachery towards Ali Pasha which induces me so readily to excuse you, but the treachery of the fisherman Fernand towards you, and the almost unheard-of miseries which were its consequences; and I say, and proclaim it publicly, that you were justified in revenging yourself on my father, and I, his son, thank you for not using greater severity."†
Chpt 89-90
- "That is quite my opinion," said the gentleman; "nothing induces serious duels so much as a duel forsworn."†
Chpt 91-92
- The four or five remaining hours before nine o'clock arrived, Andrea employed in riding, paying visits,—designed to induce those of whom he had spoken to appear at the banker's in their gayest equipages,—dazzling them by promises of shares in schemes which have since turned every brain, and in which Danglars was just taking the initiative.†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
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(induce as in: induce symptoms) to cause something to arise or happen