All 13 Uses of
serpent
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Fernand, pale and trembling, drew back, like a traveller at the sight of a serpent, and fell into a chair beside him.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- The tempest was let loose and beating the atmosphere with its mighty wings; from time to time a flash of lightning stretched across the heavens like a fiery serpent, lighting up the clouds that rolled on in vast chaotic waves.†
Chpt 22-23
- …the three statues advanced towards him with looks of love, and approached the couch on which he was reposing, their feet hidden in their long white tunics, their throats bare, hair flowing like waves, and assuming attitudes which the gods could not resist, but which saints withstood, and looks inflexible and ardent like those with which the serpent charms the bird; and then he gave way before looks that held him in a torturing grasp and delighted his senses as with a voluptuous kiss.†
Chpt 31-32
- Lips of stone turned to flame, breasts of ice became like heated lava, so that to Franz, yielding for the first time to the sway of the drug, love was a sorrow and voluptuousness a torture, as burning mouths were pressed to his thirsty lips, and he was held in cool serpent-like embraces.†
Chpt 31-32
- Cucumetto was a cunning fiend, and had assumed the form of a brigand instead of a serpent, and this look from Teresa showed to him that she was a worthy daughter of Eve, and he returned to the forest, pausing several times on his way, under the pretext of saluting his protectors.†
Chpt 33-34
- For a man not connected with newspapers, here is the pendant to the famous sea-serpent of the Constitutionnel.†
Chpt 39-40
- How comes it that all do not retreat in aversion at sight of that flat, receding, serpent-like forehead, round, vulture-shaped head, and sharp-hooked nose, like the beak of a buzzard?†
Chpt 45-46
- I have my pride for men—serpents always ready to threaten every one who would pass without crushing them under foot.†
Chpt 47-48
- Pale as if he had been gazing on a serpent, he fixed his terrified eye on the agonized sufferer.†
Chpt 79-80
- I, who was looking on, an eager and curious spectator,—I, who was watching the working of this mournful tragedy,—I, who like a wicked angel was laughing at the evil men committed protected by secrecy (a secret is easily kept by the rich and powerful), I am in my turn bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart!†
Chpt 93-94
- Villefort, drawn by an irresistible attraction, like that of the bird to the serpent, walked towards the house.†
Chpt 107-108
- Well, he told me that Benedetto, who is considered a serpent of subtlety and a giant of cunning, is really but a very commonplace, silly rascal, and altogether unworthy of the experiments that will be made on his phrenological organs after his death.†
Chpt 109-110
- —Oh, what an alliance—the tiger and the serpent; worthy wife of such as I am!†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
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(serpent) a snake