All 13 Uses of
Constantinople
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I will send you to Constantinople.†
Chpt 39-40 *
- "Did you know me better," returned the count, smiling, "you would not give one thought of such a thing for a traveller like myself, who has successively lived on maccaroni at Naples, polenta at Milan, olla podrida at Valencia, pilau at Constantinople, karrick in India, and swallows' nests in China.†
Chpt 39-40
- You procure your mistresses from the opera, the Vaudeville, or the Varietes; I purchased mine at Constantinople; it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.†
Chpt 39-40
- Now I can promise you, that a Frenchman might show himself in public, either in Tunis, Constantinople, Bagdad, or Cairo, without being treated in that way.†
Chpt 53-54
- She is a slave whom I bought at Constantinople, madame, the daughter of a prince.†
Chpt 71-72
- Why, simply from the circumstance of my having bought her one day, as I was passing through the market at Constantinople.†
Chpt 77-78
- As she was coming down, she thought she recognized the French officer who had been sent to Constantinople, and in whom my father placed so much confidence; for he knew that all the soldiers of the French emperor were naturally noble and generous.†
Chpt 77-78
- The name of the French officer who had been sent to Constantinople resounded on all sides amongst our Palikares; it was evident that he brought the answer of the emperor, and that it was favorable.†
Chpt 77-78
- "No," replied Haidee, "he did not dare to keep us, so we were sold to some slave-merchants who were going to Constantinople.†
Chpt 77-78
- …from the French lord, the Count of Monte Cristo, an emerald valued at eight hundred thousand francs; as the ransom of a young Christian slave of eleven years of age, named Haidee, the acknowledged daughter of the late lord Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his favorite; she having been sold to me seven years previously, with her mother, who had died on arriving at Constantinople, by a French colonel in the service of the Vizier Ali Tepelini, named Fernand Mondego.†
Chpt 85-86
- Given at Constantinople, by authority of his highness, in the year 1247 of the Hegira.†
Chpt 85-86
- It is you who, sent by him to Constantinople, to treat with the emperor for the life or death of your benefactor, brought back a false mandate granting full pardon!†
Chpt 85-86
- I, who have a seraglio at Cairo, one at Smyrna, and one at Constantinople, preside at a wedding?†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
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(Constantinople) capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire); Constantine renamed the city of Byzantium to Constantinople in the fourth century; in 1930 Turkey renamed it to Istanbul