All 50 Uses of
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.†
Chpt 1-2
- The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,——after having been accustomed to hear the "Vive Napoleons" of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,——was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.†
Chpt 5-6
- Suppose, for instance, the prisoner, as is more than probable, to have served under Napoleon——well, can you expect for an instant, that one accustomed, at the word of his commander, to rush fearlessly on the very bayonets of his foe, will scruple more to drive a stiletto into the heart of one he knows to be his personal enemy, than to slaughter his fellow-creatures, merely because bidden to do so by one he is bound to obey?†
Chpt 5-6
- The door closed, and Dantes advanced with outstretched hands until he touched the wall; he then sat down in the corner until his eyes became accustomed to the darkness.†
Chpt 7-8
- "Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the mountaineers, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted over the plains of Bordeaux by Robespierre's bloodhounds, he becomes accustomed to most things.†
Chpt 11-12
- Seventeen months captivity to a sailor accustomed to the boundless ocean, is a worse punishment than human crime ever merited.†
Chpt 13-14
- He accustomed himself to speaking to the new jailer, although the latter was, if possible, more taciturn than the old one; but still, to speak to a man, even though mute, was something.†
Chpt 15-16
- The jailer was accustomed to pour the contents of the saucepan into Dantes' plate, and Dantes, after eating his soup with a wooden spoon, washed the plate, which thus served for every day.†
Chpt 15-16
- When the hour for his jailer's visit arrived, Dantes straightened the handle of the saucepan as well as he could, and placed it in its accustomed place.†
Chpt 15-16
- His thin face, deeply furrowed by care, and the bold outline of his strongly marked features, betokened a man more accustomed to exercise his mental faculties than his physical strength.†
Chpt 15-16
- "The family began to get accustomed to their obscurity.†
Chpt 17-18
- Faria, the beneficent and cheerful companion, with whom he was accustomed to live so intimately, no longer breathed.†
Chpt 19-20
- Evening came, and Edmond saw the island tinged with the shades of twilight, and then disappear in the darkness from all eyes but his own, for he, with vision accustomed to the gloom of a prison, continued to behold it last of all, for he remained alone upon deck.†
Chpt 22-23
- I am accustomed to adversity.†
Chpt 23-24
- The delighted builder then offered his services in providing a suitable crew for the little vessel, but this Dantes declined with many thanks, saying he was accustomed to cruise about quite alone, and his principal pleasure consisted in managing his yacht himself; the only thing the builder could oblige him in would be to contrive a sort of secret closet in the cabin at his bed's head, the closet to contain three divisions, so constructed as to be concealed from all but himself.†
Chpt 25-26
- The bed belonging to the present occupants was placed as the former owner of the chamber had been accustomed to have his; and, in spite of his efforts to prevent it, the eyes of Edmond were suffused in tears as he reflected that on that spot the old man had breathed his last, vainly calling for his son.†
Chpt 25-26
- At this unusual sound, a huge black dog came rushing to meet the daring assailant of his ordinarily tranquil abode, snarling and displaying his sharp white teeth with a determined hostility that abundantly proved how little he was accustomed to society.†
Chpt 25-26
- With these words he went stealthily to the door, which he closed, and, by way of still greater precaution, bolted and barred it, as he was accustomed to do at night.†
Chpt 25-26
- One evening, after a day of accustomed vigil at the angle of two roads leading to Marseilles from the Catalans, she returned to her home more depressed than ever.†
Chpt 27-28
- Cocles thus remained in his accustomed tranquillity.†
Chpt 29-30 *
- Through the darkness Franz, whose eyes were now more accustomed to it, could see the looming shore along which the boat was sailing, and then, as they rounded a rocky point, he saw the fire more brilliant than ever, and about it five or six persons seated.†
Chpt 31-32
- "I say, that when a thing completely surpasses my comprehension, I am accustomed not to dwell on that thing, but to pass to another.†
Chpt 31-32
- Accustomed as Franz was to the Italian phraseology, his first impulse was to look round him, but these words were addressed to him.†
Chpt 33-34
- "Why, you know, my dear fellow, when one has been accustomed to Malibran and Sontag, such singers as these don't make the same impression on you they perhaps do on others."†
Chpt 33-34
- The first act of Franz was to summon his landlord, who presented himself with his accustomed obsequiousness.†
Chpt 33-34
- Franz had by degrees become accustomed to the count's pallor, which had so forcibly struck him at their first meeting.†
Chpt 35-36
- Signor Pastrini, who had been accustomed to see them dine together, inquired into the cause of his absence, but Franz merely replied that Albert had received on the previous evening an invitation which he had accepted.†
Chpt 37-38
- The bandit gazed on this scene with amazement; he was evidently accustomed to see his prisoners tremble before him, and yet here was one whose gay temperament was not for a moment altered; as for Franz, he was enchanted at the way in which Albert had sustained the national honor in the presence of the bandit.†
Chpt 37-38
- Poor brute——accustomed to be covered up and to have a stove in the stable, the Arabian finds himself unable to bear ten degrees of cold in Arabia."†
Chpt 39-40
- "I will keep it," returned Morcerf; "but I fear that you will be much disappointed, accustomed as you are to picturesque events and fantastic horizons.†
Chpt 39-40
- You, who are accustomed to the palaces of Italy, can amuse yourself by calculating in how many square feet a young man who is not the worst lodged in Paris can live.†
Chpt 41-42
- ——'Oh, we shall have the pleasure of waiting upon you,' answered La Carconte, with an eager attention she was not accustomed to manifest even to guests who paid for what they took.†
Chpt 45-46
- His first movement was to free himself by a violent push from the encircling arms of his mother, and to rush forward to the casket from whence the count had taken the phial of elixir; then, without asking permission of any one, he proceeded, in all the wilfulness of a spoiled child unaccustomed to restrain either whims or caprices, to pull the corks out of all the bottles.†
Chpt 47-48
- Endeavor, then, to accustom yourself to our manner of living in these northern climes as you did to those of Rome, Florence, Milan, and Madrid; it may be useful to you one of these days, whether you remain here or return to the East.†
Chpt 49-50
- Then tell me, Haidee, do you believe you shall be able to accustom yourself to our present mode of life?†
Chpt 49-50
- The silence became almost painful when, by a violent effort, tearing himself from his pleasing reverie——"Madame," said he at length, "I pray you to excuse my emotion, which must astonish you who are only accustomed to the happiness I meet here; but contentment is so new a sight to me, that I could never be weary of looking at yourself and your husband."†
Chpt 49-50
- "This humble picture would have but little interest for you, accustomed as you are to behold the pleasures and the misfortunes of the wealthy and industrious; but such as we are, we have experienced bitter sorrows."†
Chpt 49-50
- "Certainly; it being at the same time perfectly understood that he should have been duly fortified against the poison to which he had not been accustomed."†
Chpt 51-52
- The curtain fell almost immediately after the entrance of Madame Danglars into her box, the band quitted the orchestra for the accustomed half-hour's interval allowed between the acts, and the audience were left at liberty to promenade the salon or lobbies, or to pay and receive visits in their respective boxes.†
Chpt 53-54
- By the baroness he was most graciously welcomed, while Eugenie received him with her accustomed coldness.†
Chpt 53-54
- In short, Madame Danglars, not being able personally to examine in detail the domestic economy and household arrangements of a man who gave away horses worth 30,000 francs and who went to the opera with a Greek slave wearing diamonds to the amount of a million of money, had deputed those eyes, by which she was accustomed to see, to give her a faithful account of the mode of life of this incomprehensible person.†
Chpt 53-54
- "Ah," said the count, "I see that M. Danglars is accustomed to play at gaining or losing 300,000 francs in a day; he must be enormously rich."†
Chpt 53-54
- "Why, as to that——I think, my dear son, you must be by this time so accustomed to France as to look upon it almost as a second country."†
Chpt 55-56
- Andrea seized the certificate of his father's marriage and his own baptismal register, and after having opened them with all the eagerness which might be expected under the circumstances, he read them with a facility which proved that he was accustomed to similar documents, and with an expression which plainly denoted an unusual interest in the contents.†
Chpt 55-56
- A man who accustoms himself to live in such a world of poetry and imagination must find far too little excitement in a common, every-day sort of attachment such as ours.†
Chpt 57-58
- M. Noirtier, being deprived of voice and motion, is accustomed to convey his meaning by closing his eyes when he wishes to signify 'yes,' and to wink when he means 'no.'†
Chpt 59-60
- "And you approve of what she said——that is to say, you declare that the signs which she mentioned are really those by means of which you are accustomed to convey your thoughts?"†
Chpt 59-60
- "My dear," said Villefort, in answer to his wife, "you know I have never been accustomed to play the patriarch in my family, nor have I ever considered that the fate of a universe was to be decided by my nod.†
Chpt 59-60
- But since then everything has changed in and about me; I am accustomed to brave difficulties, and, in the conflict to crush those who, by their own free will, or by chance, voluntarily or involuntarily, interfere with me in my career.†
Chpt 67-68
- "And besides," said the countess, "accustomed as he is to burning climates, possibly he does not feel the heat as we do."†
Chpt 69-70
Definition:
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(accustom) to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)editor's notes: In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something.