The Three Musketeers

in a sentence

For Stacey there was The Count of Monte Cristo; for me, The Three Musketeers; and for Christopher-John and Little Man, two different volumes of Aesop's Fables.  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976

She has read Around the World in Eighty Days until the Braille is soft and fraying; for this year's birthday, her father has bought her an even fatter book: Dumas's The Three Musketeers.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

It's kind of famous because they filmed a movie there once, a movie about the three Musketeers.  (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

In our alley they were known as "the three musketeers" because they were always together.  (source) Ji-Li Jiang, Red Scarf Girl, 1997

Everything I knew about swords came from reading books—the history of Alexander the Great, The Three Musketeers—as if that could help!  (source) Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid, 2010

To the crowds, the boys were like the Three Musketeers.  (source) James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers, 2000

"All for one," Sam said. "And one for all," Jess and Eddie chorused. Dad had taught them that saying a long time ago. It was from The Three Musketeers, which was a book way before it became the name of a candy bar.  (source) Lauren Tarshis, I Survived The Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980, 2016

Through the perilous years, like the Three Musketeers, We will stick just as close as can be.  (source) Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 1966

They called themselves 'The Three Musketeers.'  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

She put an arm tightly around each of them and felt gratitude and pleasure, in the firmness and warmth of their moving bodies, and they walked three abreast (like bosom friends, it occurred to her, the three Musketeers) to the nearest chair;  (source) James Agee, A Death in the Family, 1957

He had thought about being a Soldier of Fortune, after reading The Three Musketeers.  (source) Judith Guest, Ordinary People, 1976

That was the question the three Musketeers put to one another.  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, 1850

Rod had enjoyed such stories but did not apply them to himself any more than he considered personally the sword play of The Three Musketeers; nevertheless, he knew what "boxing" meant— they folded their hands and struck certain restricted blows with fists.  (source) Robert A. Heinlein, Tunnel In the Sky, 1955