All 23 Uses of
wretch
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Caligula or Nero, those treasure-seekers, those desirers of the impossible, would have accorded to the poor wretch, in exchange for his wealth, the liberty he so earnestly prayed for.†
Chpt 13-14
- —'Wretch!' returned the old man, 'what hast thou done?' and he gazed with terror on Rita, pale and bloody, a knife buried in her bosom.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- "Wretch!" exclaimed Haidee, her eyes flashing with rage; "he sold my father to the Turks, and the fortune he boasts of was the price of his treachery!†
Chpt 53-54
- But one fine day I learned that the mover of this telegraph was only a poor wretch, hired for twelve hundred francs a year, and employed all day, not in studying the heavens like an astronomer, or in gazing on the water like an angler, or even in enjoying the privilege of observing the country around him, but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white-bellied, black-clawed fellow insect, four or five leagues distant from him.†
Chpt 59-60
- "Wretch!" she cried, "will you dare to tell me you did not know what you now reproach me with?"†
Chpt 65-66
- And you suffer that, you wretch—you, who know his life and his crime?†
Chpt 81-82
- God gives me strength to overcome a wild beast like you; in the name of that God I act,—remember that, wretch,—and to spare thee at this moment is still serving him.†
Chpt 81-82
- Oh, send for some one to whom I can denounce the wretch!†
Chpt 83-84
- You thought it a mercy then, miserable wretch!†
Chpt 83-84
- " "Yes, my mother," said Albert, "I will return, and woe to the infamous wretch!†
Chpt 85-86
- "Yes, miserable wretch!" cried Morcerf, "it is your fault."†
Chpt 87-88
- "Oh," cried the general, as if branded with a hot iron, "wretch,—to reproach me with my shame when about, perhaps, to kill me!†
Chpt 91-92
- "You remember," said the count, during the most profound silence, "that the unhappy wretch who came to rob me died at my house; the supposition is that he was stabbed by his accomplice, on attempting to leave it."†
Chpt 95-96
- "Well, be it so," at length said Eugenie; "return by the same road you came, and we will say nothing about you, unhappy wretch."†
Chpt 97-98
- This Andrea was a wretch, a robber, an assassin, and yet his manners showed the effects of a sort of education, if not a complete one; he had been presented to the world with the appearance of an immense fortune, supported by an honorable name.†
Chpt 99-100
- Now, after the oath I have just taken, and which I will keep, madame, dare you ask for mercy for that wretch!†
Chpt 99-100
- And who is this wretch?†
Chpt 99-100
- "For heaven's sake, madame," said Villefort, with a firmness of expression not altogether free from harshness—"for heaven's sake, do not ask pardon of me for a guilty wretch!†
Chpt 99-100
- "And so Mademoiselle Danglars"— "She could not endure the insult offered to us by that wretch, so she asked permission to travel."†
Chpt 103-104
- He was immediately recognized as one of them; the handkerchief was thrown down, and the iron-heeled shoe replaced on the foot of the wretch to whom it belonged.†
Chpt 107-108
- Because the person who bears it is too highly favored by heaven to be the father of such a wretch as you.†
Chpt 107-108
- First, M. and Madame de Saint-Meran incurred his displeasure, so he poured out three drops of his elixir—three drops were sufficient; then followed Barrois, the old servant of M. Noirtier, who sometimes rebuffed this little wretch—he therefore received the same quantity of the elixir; the same happened to Valentine, of whom he was jealous; he gave her the same dose as the others, and all was over for her as well as the rest.†
Chpt 109-110
- "I am the spectre of a wretch you buried in the dungeons of the Chateau d'If.†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
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(wretch) someone you feel sorry for
or:
a person of bad character