All 3 Uses of
sage
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Think of the eighty thousand applauding spectators, the sage matrons who took their daughters, and the charming Vestals who made with the thumb of their white hands the fatal sign that said, 'Come, despatch the dying.'†
Chpt 35-36
- Has not some sage said, 'Nothing too much'? and another, 'I carry all my effects with me'?†
Chpt 95-96 *
- Asmodeus—that diabolical personage, who would have been created by every fertile imagination if Le Sage had not acquired the priority in his great masterpiece—would have enjoyed a singular spectacle, if he had lifted up the roof of the little house in the Rue Saint-Germain-des-Pres, while Debray was casting up his figures.†
Chpt 105-106
Definition:
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(sage as in: sage advice) profound wisdom; or one known for being wise