All 32 Uses of
correspond
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Yesterday a person exactly corresponding with this description was followed, but he was lost sight of at the corner of the Rue de la Jussienne and the Rue Coq-Heron.
Chpt 11-12 (definition 1)corresponding = matching
- "Monsieur," said Morrel, recovering his assurance as he proceeded, "do you recollect that a few days before the landing of his majesty the emperor, I came to intercede for a young man, the mate of my ship, who was accused of being concerned in correspondence with the Island of Elba?"
Chpt 13-14 (definition 2)correspondence = communication by writing letters
- Dantes listened with admiring attention to all he said; some of his remarks corresponded with what he already knew, or applied to the sort of knowledge his nautical life had enabled him to acquire.†
Chpt 17-18 (definition 1)
- Dantes had entered the Chateau d'If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early paths of life have been smooth, and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past.
Chpt 22-23 (definition 1)corresponding = matching (similar)
- The night after that battle he was sentry at the door of a general who carried on a secret correspondence with the enemy.
Chpt 27-28 (definition 2)correspondence = communication by writing letters
- "In business, sir," said he, "one has no friends, only correspondents."†
Chpt 29-30 (definition 2)
- Unfortunately, however, Morrel had not only engagements with the house of Thomson & French, who had shown themselves so considerate towards him; and, as he had said, in business he had correspondents, and not friends.†
Chpt 29-30 (definition 2)
- Unfortunately, whether through envy or stupidity, all Morrel's correspondents did not take this view; and some even came to a contrary decision.†
Chpt 29-30 (definition 2)
- The surprise and agitation occasioned by this full confirmation of Franz's former suspicion had no doubt imparted a corresponding expression to his features; for the countess, after gazing with a puzzled look at his face, burst into a fit of laughter, and begged to know what had happened.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1)corresponding = fitting (appropriate for the circumstances)
- The description he gave me perfectly corresponds with the features and character of the man before us.
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1) *corresponds = matches
- This exclamation, which corresponded to the count's own thought rather than to what Albert was saying, surprised everybody, and especially Morrel, who looked at Monte Cristo with wonder.†
Chpt 39-40 (definition 1)
- "Baroness," said Danglars, "give me leave to present to you the Count of Monte Cristo, who has been most warmly recommended to me by my correspondents at Rome.†
Chpt 47-48 (definition 2)
- "This is simple enough," said the count; "but look, is not your correspondent putting itself in motion?"
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
- By the same sign, which, at the same time, tells my right-hand correspondent that I am ready, while it gives notice to my left-hand correspondent to prepare in his turn.
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- By the same sign, which, at the same time, tells my right-hand correspondent that I am ready, while it gives notice to my left-hand correspondent to prepare in his turn.
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- "Tell me, should you have the misfortune to turn your head while your right-hand correspondent was telegraphing"— "I should not see him."
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- Sir, let me see my right-hand correspondent.
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- Sir, my right-hand correspondent is signalling.
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- Sir, my right-hand correspondent redoubles his signals; he is impatient.
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- No, you will lose it, for you are going to alter your correspondent's message.
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- The shot told; red with fever, while the large drops fell from his brow, the man executed, one after the other, the three signs given by the count, in spite of the frightful contortions of the right-hand correspondent, who, not understanding the change, began to think the gardener had gone mad.
Chpt 61-62 (definition 2)
- I draw upon him for 600,000. francs, my bills are returned unpaid, and, more than that, I hold bills of exchange signed by him to the value of 400,000. francs, payable at his correspondent's in Paris at the end of this month.
Chpt 65-66 (definition 3)correspondent = an agent who represents someone in a distant place based on written communication
- I present them; but my correspondent has disappeared.
Chpt 65-66 (definition 2)correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
- Probably you have some correspondent in Greece?
Chpt 65-66 (definition 3) *correspondent = an agent who represents someone in a distant place based on written communication
- Well, write to your correspondent in Yanina, and ask him what part was played by a Frenchman named Fernand Mondego in the catastrophe of Ali Tepelini.
Chpt 65-66 (definition 2)correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
- Because I imagine you have correspondents in that country.†
Chpt 75-76 (definition 2)
- And Albert handed over the paper to the count, who read as follows:— "A correspondent at Yanina informs us of a fact of which until now we had remained in ignorance."
Chpt 77-78 (definition 2)correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
- Well, over that coach-house are the servants' rooms, with bells corresponding with the different apartments.
Chpt 81-82 (definition 1)corresponding = matching
- You fear to acknowledge that your correspondent his deceived you?
Chpt 83-84 (definition 2)correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
- By a Paris banker, my correspondent.
Chpt 87-88 (definition 2) *
- Yes; and I wrote, and will show you my correspondence, if you like.
Chpt 87-88 (definition 2)correspondence = written letters
- Those gilded cashbooks, drawers locked like gates of fortresses, heaps of bank-bills, come from I know not where, and the quantities of letters from England, Holland, Spain, India, China, and Peru, have generally a strange influence on a father's mind, and make him forget that there is in the world an interest greater and more sacred than the good opinion of his correspondents.†
Chpt 95-96 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)
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(2) (correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(3) (correspondence as in: a correspondence course) done from afareditor's notes: For example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.
This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications.