All 5 Uses of
Cairo
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- As for me," he added, with one of those singular smiles which did not escape the young man, "when I have completed my affairs in Paris, I shall go and die in the East; and should you wish to see me again, you must seek me at Cairo, Bagdad, or Ispahan."†
Chpt 31-32
- But go a little way from France—go either to Aleppo or Cairo, or only to Naples or Rome, and you will see people passing by you in the streets—people erect, smiling, and fresh-colored, of whom Asmodeus, if you were holding on by the skirt of his mantle, would say, 'That man was poisoned three weeks ago; he will be a dead man in a month.'†
Chpt 51-52
- 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 *
- Besides, whether at home or not, whether in Paris or Cairo, the abbe always left something to give away, which the valet distributed through this wicket in his master's name.†
Chpt 69-70
- 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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(Cairo) the capital and largest city of Egypt; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs