All 50 Uses of
content
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- And he emptied his pockets on the table, the contents consisting of a dozen gold pieces, five or six five-franc pieces, and some smaller coin.†
Chpt 1-2
- You could do no such thing, Fernand; you are a soldier, and if you remain at the Catalans it is because there is no war; so remain a fisherman, and contented with my friendship, as I cannot give you more.†
Chpt 3-4
- Caderousse raised his glass to his mouth with unsteady hand, and swallowed the contents at a gulp.†
Chpt 3-4
- Everybody talked at once, without waiting for a reply and each one seemed to be contented with expressing his or her own thoughts.†
Chpt 5-6
- "For my part, dear mother." interposed Renee, "I trust your wishes will not prosper, and that Providence will only permit petty offenders, poor debtors, and miserable cheats to fall into M. de Villefort's hands,—then I shall be contented."†
Chpt 5-6
- I have, however, already told you, sir, I was entirely ignorant of the contents of the letter.†
Chpt 7-8
- And you say that you are ignorant of the contents of this letter?†
Chpt 7-8
- "Oh, if he knows the contents of this!" murmured he, "and that Noirtier is the father of Villefort, I am lost!"†
Chpt 7-8
- The best thing I can do will be to certify the truth of the contents of your petition.†
Chpt 13-14
- He turned his eyes towards the soup which the jailer had brought, rose, staggered towards it, raised the vessel to his lips, and drank off the contents with a feeling of indescribable pleasure.†
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
- I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me.†
Chpt 15-16
- When the Maltese (for so they called Dantes) had said this, it was sufficient, and all went to their bunks contentedly.†
Chpt 23-24
- …stockings, striped gaiters, and silver buckles for the shoes, all disappeared; and Gaspard Caderousse, unable to appear abroad in his pristine splendor, had given up any further participation in the pomps and vanities, both for himself and wife, although a bitter feeling of envious discontent filled his mind as the sound of mirth and merry music from the joyous revellers reached even the miserable hostelry to which he still clung, more for the shelter than the profit it afforded.†
Chpt 25-26
- Caderousse quickly performed the stranger's bidding; and after pouring some into a glass, and slowly swallowing its contents, the abbe, resuming his usual placidity of manner, said, as he placed his empty glass on the table,—"Where did we leave off?"†
Chpt 25-26
- Albert glanced carelessly at the different missives, selected two written in a small and delicate hand, and enclosed in scented envelopes, opened them and perused their contents with some attention.†
Chpt 39-40
- "Ah, father," said Albert with a smile, "it is evident you do not know the Count of Monte Cristo; he despises all honors, and contents himself with those written on his passport."†
Chpt 41-42
- The very circumstances which inflict on you, as a principal in the tragic scene enacted here, such painful emotions, are to me, on the contrary, a source of something like contentment, and serve but to enhance the value of this dwelling in my estimation.†
Chpt 45-46
- The count bowed, and contented himself with seeing Villefort to the door of his cabinet, the procureur being escorted to his carriage by two footmen, who, on a signal from their master, followed him with every mark of attention.†
Chpt 47-48
- 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
- …the kitchen-garden, having paid a high price for it, and being quite unable to find any one willing to take his bargain off his hands without a considerable loss, yet still clinging to the belief that at some future day he should obtain a sum for it that would repay him, not only for his past outlay, but also the interest upon the capital locked up in his new acquisition, contented himself with letting the ground temporarily to some market-gardeners, at a yearly rental of 500 francs.†
Chpt 51-52
- It is because, at your theatres, by what at least I could judge by reading the pieces they play, they see persons swallow the contents of a phial, or suck the button of a ring, and fall dead instantly.†
Chpt 51-52
- 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
- "Yes," said the procureur, "and I think the will promises to be yet more extraordinary, for I cannot see how it is to be drawn up without the intervention of Valentine, and she may, perhaps, be considered as too much interested in its contents to allow of her being a suitable interpreter of the obscure and ill-defined wishes of her grandfather."†
Chpt 59-60
- The latter, faithful to the principle of Horace, nil admirari, had contented himself with showing his knowledge by declaring in what lake the best lampreys were caught.†
Chpt 63-64
- "Think not I contented myself with this one effort," continued Villefort.†
Chpt 67-68
- For any other son to have stayed with his mother for four days at Treport, it would have been a condescension or a martyrdom, while I return, more contented, more peaceful—shall I say more poetic!†
Chpt 67-68
- They questioned him as to his sentiments, but he contented himself with answering, that the letters from the Island of Elba ought to have informed them' "— Franz interrupted himself by saying, "My father was a royalist; they need not have asked his sentiments, which were well known."†
Chpt 75-76
- He was then informed of the contents of the letter from the Island of Elba, in which he was recommended to the club as a man who would be likely to advance the interests of their party.†
Chpt 75-76
- During all this time, the general, on whom they thought to have relied as on a brother, manifested evidently signs of discontent and repugnance.†
Chpt 75-76
- She therefore contented herself with saying that M. Noirtier having at the commencement of the discussion been attacked by a sort of apoplectic fit, the affair would necessarily be deferred for some days longer.†
Chpt 77-78
- Andrea examined it carefully, to ascertain if the letter had been opened, or if any indiscreet eyes had seen its contents; but it was so carefully folded, that no one could have read it, and the seal was perfect.†
Chpt 81-82
- Come, you are growing discontented, you are no longer happy; you, who only wish to live like a retired baker.†
Chpt 81-82
- Well, then, I must be contented to imagine it.†
Chpt 81-82 *
- Monte Cristo approached, and dropped on his purple lips three or four drops of the contents of the phial.†
Chpt 83-84
- The abbe made him smell the contents of the phial, and he again opened his eyes.†
Chpt 83-84
- If I strike with the sword, or discharge the contents of a pistol at man with whom, for three years, I have been on terms of intimacy, I must, at least, know why I do so; I must meet him with a heart at ease, and that quiet conscience which a man needs when his own arm must save his life.†
Chpt 83-84
- The cause which the young man espoused was one so sacred that Beauchamp had only to comply with all his wishes; he yielded and contented himself with following Morcerf.†
Chpt 87-88
- Chateau-Renaud contented himself with tapping his boot with his flexible cane.†
Chpt 91-92
- I possess a share of wit, and a certain relative sensibility, which enables me to draw from life in general, for the support of mine, all I meet with that is good, like the monkey who cracks the nut to get at its contents.†
Chpt 95-96
- In order that he might awaken early he did not close the shutters, but contented himself with bolting the door and placing on the table an unclasped and long-pointed knife, whose temper he well knew, and which was never absent from him.†
Chpt 97-98
- Monte Cristo took the glass, drank half its contents, and then presented it to Valentine, who smiled and swallowed the rest.†
Chpt 99-100
- Madame de Villefort, however, reassured by the silence, which was alone disturbed by the regular breathing of Valentine, again extended her hand, and half hidden by the curtains succeeded in emptying the contents of the phial into the glass.†
Chpt 101-102
- Then he took the glass, emptied three parts of the contents in the fireplace, that it might be supposed Valentine had taken it, and replaced it on the table; then he disappeared, after throwing a farewell glance on Valentine, who slept with the confidence and innocence of an angel.†
Chpt 101-102
- Madame de Villefort emptied the contents into the ashes, which she disturbed that they might the more readily absorb the liquid; then she carefully rinsed the glass, and wiping it with her handkerchief replaced it on the table.†
Chpt 101-102
- It was now a third full, just as it was when she threw the contents into the ashes.†
Chpt 101-102
- While Madame de Villefort remained rooted to the spot like a statue of terror, and Villefort, with his head hidden in the bedclothes, saw nothing around him, d'Avrigny approached the window, that he might the better examine the contents of the glass, and dipping the tip of his finger in, tasted it.†
Chpt 101-102
- Debray paused a moment before reading, as if trying to guess its contents, or perhaps while making up his mind how to act, whatever it might contain.†
Chpt 105-106
- Villefort looked for an instant with a gloomy expression, then, suddenly, taking it up with a nervous motion, he swallowed its contents at one draught.†
Chpt 107-108
- He picked up the paper, and, recognizing his wife's writing, ran his eyes rapidly over its contents; it ran as follows:— "You know that I was a good mother, since it was for my son's sake I became criminal.†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
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(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied