All 10 Uses of
revert
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Very good," resumed Danglars; "now your revenge looks like common-sense, for in no way can it revert to yourself, and the matter will thus work its own way; there is nothing to do now but fold the letter as I am doing, and write upon it, 'To the king's attorney,' and that's all settled."†
Chpt 3-4
- All was useless, the treasure disappeared, and had again reverted to the genii from whom for a moment he had hoped to carry it off.†
Chpt 23-24 *
- "No, count," replied Monte Cristo taking the hand held out to him by the general; "in this instance I may fairly and freely accept your thanks; but you have already tendered them, and fully discharged your debt—if indeed there existed one—and I feel almost mortified to find you still reverting to the subject.†
Chpt 53-54
- The major looked at the count with his large staring eyes, and then took a survey of the apartment, but his gaze almost immediately reverted to the proprietor of the room.†
Chpt 55-56
- That will account to you for the unreserved manner which you observed between me and Eugenie, as in speaking of the man whom I could not love, my thoughts involuntarily reverted to him on whom my affections were fixed.†
Chpt 57-58
- Now, if I had taken the veil, all this fortune would have descended to my father, and, in reversion, to his son.†
Chpt 57-58
- "I hastened to you," continued Beauchamp, "to tell you, Albert, that in this changing age, the faults of a father cannot revert upon his children.†
Chpt 83-84
- "But," said Valentine, timidly, "does all the father's shame revert upon the son?†
Chpt 93-94
- It was considered, that you dead, the fortune would naturally revert to your brother, unless he were disinherited; and besides, the crime appearing useless, it would be folly to commit it.†
Chpt 101-102
- Mademoiselle de Villefort will share them with you; for I entreat her to give to the poor the immense fortune reverting to her from her father, now a madman, and her brother who died last September with his mother.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(revert as in: revert to childish ways) go back to a previous state