All 36 Uses of
precede
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- 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
- Dantes descended the staircase, preceded by the magistrate, and followed by the soldiers.†
Chpt 5-6 *
- This state of mental anguish is, however, less terrible than the sufferings that precede or the punishment that possibly will follow.†
Chpt 15-16
- Dantes had not eaten since the preceding evening, but he had not thought of hunger, nor did he think of it now.†
Chpt 19-20
- "Yes, sir," answered the host, even more surprised at the question than he had been by the silence which had preceded it; "I am Gaspard Caderousse, at your service."†
Chpt 25-26
- Then his two guides took his arms, and he went on, guided by them, and preceded by the sentinel.†
Chpt 31-32
- At these words, moving aside the tapestry, Sinbad preceded his guest.†
Chpt 31-32
- With it was effaced the last trace of the preceding night; and then supper, Sinbad, hashish, statues,—all became a dream for Franz.†
Chpt 31-32
- But this was not so easy a matter, for the streets were thronged with people, and Rome was already a prey to that low and feverish murmur which precedes all great events; and at Rome there are four great events in every year,—the Carnival, Holy Week, Corpus Christi, and the Feast of St. Peter.†
Chpt 31-32
- Luigi threw his cloak on the ground, placed his carbine on his shoulder, and freed from his heavy covering, preceded the traveller with the rapid step of a mountaineer, which a horse can scarcely keep up with.†
Chpt 33-34
- The occupant of the box in which the Greek girl sat appeared to share the universal admiration that prevailed; for he left his seat to stand up in front, so that, his countenance being fully revealed, Franz had no difficulty in recognizing him as the mysterious inhabitant of Monte Cristo, and the very same person he had encountered the preceding evening in the ruins of the Colosseum, and whose voice and figure had seemed so familiar to him.†
Chpt 33-34
- The truth was, that the mention of two places in the Palazzo Rospoli had recalled to Franz the conversation he had overheard the preceding evening in the ruins of the Colosseum between the mysterious unknown and the Transteverin, in which the stranger in the cloak had undertaken to obtain the freedom of a condemned criminal; and if this muffled-up individual proved (as Franz felt sure he would) the same as the person he had just seen in the Teatro Argentino, then he should be able to…†
Chpt 33-34
- The landlord preceded the friends across the landing, which was all that separated them from the apartments of the count, rang at the bell, and, upon the door being opened by a servant, said, "I signori Francesi."†
Chpt 33-34
- The permission to do what he liked with the carriage pleased him above all, for the fair peasants had appeared in a most elegant carriage the preceding evening, and Albert was not sorry to be upon an equal footing with them.†
Chpt 35-36
- The day was as gay as the preceding one, perhaps even more animated and noisy; the count appeared for an instant at his window, but when they again passed he had disappeared.†
Chpt 35-36
- And taking the lighted torch from the hands of the herdsman, he preceded his guests, not as a servant who performs an act of civility, but like a king who precedes ambassadors.†
Chpt 37-38
- And taking the lighted torch from the hands of the herdsman, he preceded his guests, not as a servant who performs an act of civility, but like a king who precedes ambassadors.†
Chpt 37-38
- At last he arrived at the adventure of the preceding night, and the embarrassment in which he found himself placed by not having sufficient cash by six or seven hundred piastres to make up the sum required, and finally of his application to the count and the picturesque and satisfactory result that followed.†
Chpt 37-38
- Monte Cristo gave his hat, cane, and gloves to the same French footman who had called his carriage at the Count of Morcerf's, and then he passed into the small salon, preceded by Bertuccio, who showed him the way.†
Chpt 41-42
- Nor, although preceding the party, did he once mistake one door for another, or commit the smallest error when choosing any particular corridor or staircase to conduct him to a place or suite of rooms he desired to visit.†
Chpt 45-46
- Preceded by Ali, who carried a rose-colored flambeau in his hand, the new-comer, who was no other than the lovely Greek who had been Monte Cristo's companion in Italy, was conducted to her apartments, while the count retired to the pavilion reserved for himself.†
Chpt 45-46
- "With your permission," said Danglars, bowing, "I will precede you, to show you the way."†
Chpt 45-46
- Another salver passed, loaded like the preceding ones; she saw Albert attempt to persuade the count, but he obstinately refused.†
Chpt 69-70
- I had him put into a leaden coffin, and I am preceding him by a few days.†
Chpt 71-72
- He had been struck to the heart by a frightful recollection—the conversation he had heard between the doctor and Villefort the night of Madame de Saint-Meran's death, recurred to him; these symptoms, to a less alarming extent, were the same which had preceded the death of Barrois.†
Chpt 93-94
- We saw in a preceding chapter how Madame Danglars went formally to announce to Madame de Villefort the approaching marriage of Eugenie Danglars and M. Andrea Cavalcanti.†
Chpt 95-96
- This announcement, which implied or appeared to imply, the approval of all the persons concerned in this momentous affair, had been preceded by a scene to which our readers must be admitted.†
Chpt 95-96
- An officer was placing two soldiers at the door of each drawing-room, and was advancing towards Danglars, preceded by a commissary of police, girded with his scarf.†
Chpt 95-96
- At this precise time, the first gendarme Andrea had noticed walked up-stairs, preceded by the commissary of police, and supported by the second gendarme who guarded the staircase and was himself re-enforced by the one stationed at the door.†
Chpt 97-98
- "You will excuse this poor fellow, madame," he said, as he preceded the baroness, "but his orders are precise, and M. de Villefort begged me to tell you that he could not act otherwise."†
Chpt 99-100
- One could have thought that he was undergoing the agonies preceding death.†
Chpt 103-104
- Involuntarily his eyes wandered towards the window of Noirtier's room, where he had seen him the preceding night.†
Chpt 107-108
- You wished it to be preceded by all these titles.†
Chpt 109-110
- A dull, gloomy silence, like that which precedes some awful phenomenon of nature, pervaded the assembly, who shuddered in dismay.†
Chpt 109-110
- Dying in the arms of his children, he had been by them laid by the side of his wife, who had preceded him in eternity by two years.†
Chpt 113-114
- Enervated, prostrate, and breathless, he became unconscious of outward objects; he seemed to be entering that vague delirium preceding death.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(precede) to go or do before