Both Uses of
grandeur
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz's ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- "I fear, Valentine," replied the lover, "that were she living I should never have had the happiness of knowing you; you would then have been too happy to have stooped from your grandeur to bestow a thought on me."†
Chpt 51-52
Definition:
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(grandeur) impressive magnificence -- usually on a grand (large) scale