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Definition
get or gather together
- As soon as his engagement with the patron of The Young Amelia ended, he would hire a small vessel on his own account—for in his several voyages he had amassed a hundred piastres—and under some pretext land at the Island of Monte Cristo.Chapters 22-23 (93% in)
- He labored and toiled until he had amassed 250,000 francs; six years sufficed to achieve this object.Chapters 49-50 (56% in)
- And I, doctor—you know a man does not arrive at the post I occupy—one has not been king's attorney twenty-five years without having amassed a tolerable number of enemies; mine are numerous.Chapters 73-74 (49% in)
- I had a betrothed, Albert, a lovely girl whom I adored, and I was bringing to my betrothed a hundred and fifty louis, painfully amassed by ceaseless toil.Chapters 91-92 (36% in)
- "Mercedes," said the count, "I do not say it to blame you, but you made an unnecessary sacrifice in relinquishing the whole of the fortune amassed by M. de Morcerf; half of it at least by right belonged to you, in virtue of your vigilance and economy."Chapters 111-112 (96% in)
There are no more uses of "amass" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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