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relating to magic
- I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.Chapters 59-60 (92% in)
- "Oh, I am aware of that," said Madame de Villefort; "but I have a passion for the occult sciences, which speak to the imagination like poetry, and are reducible to figures, like an algebraic equation; but go on, I beg of you; what you say interests me to the greatest degree."Chapters 51-52 (66% in)
There are no more uses of "occult" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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