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The Count of Monte Cristo
- Danglars shuddered at this unexpected attack, and turned to Caderousse, whose countenance he scrutinized, to try and detect whether the blow was premeditated; but he read nothing but envy in a countenance already rendered brutal and stupid by drunkenness.†
Chpt 3-4 (definition 2)
- I cannot inform you, but you will be duly acquainted with the reasons that have rendered such a step necessary at the preliminary examination.†
Chpt 5-6 (definition 2)
- This lad, for he was scarcely a man,—simple, natural, eloquent with that eloquence of the heart never found when sought for; full of affection for everybody, because he was happy, and because happiness renders even the wicked good—extended his affection even to his judge, spite of Villefort's severe look and stern accent.†
Chpt 7-8 (definition 1)
- Villefort made a violent effort, and in a tone he strove to render firm,— "Sir," said he, "I am no longer able, as I had hoped, to restore you immediately to liberty; before doing so, I must consult the trial justice; what my own feeling is you already know."†
Chpt 7-8 (definition 2)
- "Oh, sire," replied the minister, "we have no occasion to invent any; every day our desks are loaded with most circumstantial denunciations, coming from hosts of people who hope for some return for services which they seek to render, but cannot; they trust to fortune, and rely upon some unexpected event in some way to justify their predictions."†
Chpt 9-10 (definition 2)
- "Sire," said Villefort, "I will render a faithful report to your majesty, but I must entreat your forgiveness if my anxiety leads to some obscurity in my language."†
Chpt 9-10 (definition 2)
- It is the only means of rendering Italy strong, happy, and independent.†
Chpt 13-14 *
- The damp had rendered it friable, and Dantes was able to break it off—in small morsels, it is true, but at the end of half an hour he had scraped off a handful; a mathematician might have calculated that in two years, supposing that the rock was not encountered, a passage twenty feet long and two feet broad, might be formed.†
Chpt 15-16 (definition 2)
- Dantes possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.†
Chpt 17-18 (definition 2)
- "Why," replied Dantes, "I see nothing but broken lines and unconnected words, which are rendered illegible by fire."†
Chpt 17-18 (definition 2)
- We must now only think of you, my dear friend, and so act as to render your captivity supportable or your flight possible.†
Chpt 19-20 (definition 2)
- In an instant he had cleared every obstacle away, and he saw successively the lock, placed between two padlocks, and the two handles at each end, all carved as things were carved at that epoch, when art rendered the commonest metals precious.†
Chpt 23-24 (definition 2)
- "Quite, quite alone," replied the man—"or, at least, practically so, for my poor wife, who is the only person in the house besides myself, is laid up with illness, and unable to render me the least assistance, poor thing!"†
Chpt 25-26 (definition 2)
- …there, got on very intimate terms with him, won over the support of the royalists at the capital and in the provinces, received promises and made pledges on his own part, guided his regiment by paths known to himself alone through the mountain gorges which were held by the royalists, and, in fact, rendered such services in this brief campaign that, after the taking of Trocadero, he was made colonel, and received the title of count and the cross of an officer of the Legion of Honor.†
Chpt 27-28 (definition 2)
- He folded up the accusation quietly, and put it as quietly in his pocket; read the examination, and saw that the name of Noirtier was not mentioned in it; perused, too, the application dated 10th April, 1815, in which Morrel, by the deputy procureur's advice, exaggerated with the best intentions (for Napoleon was then on the throne) the services Dantes had rendered to the imperial cause—services which Villefort's certificates rendered indispensable.†
Chpt 27-28 (definition 2)
- He folded up the accusation quietly, and put it as quietly in his pocket; read the examination, and saw that the name of Noirtier was not mentioned in it; perused, too, the application dated 10th April, 1815, in which Morrel, by the deputy procureur's advice, exaggerated with the best intentions (for Napoleon was then on the throne) the services Dantes had rendered to the imperial cause—services which Villefort's certificates rendered indispensable.†
Chpt 27-28 (definition 2)
- "What is the amount?" asked Morrel with a voice he strove to render firm.†
Chpt 29-30 (definition 2)
- All the rest of the year the city is in that state of dull apathy, between life and death, which renders it similar to a kind of station between this world and the next—a sublime spot, a resting-place full of poetry and character, and at which Franz had already halted five or six times, and at each time found it more marvellous and striking.†
Chpt 31-32 (definition 1)
- In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon, which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner terrible, often makes him feared.†
Chpt 33-34 (definition 1)
- In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon, which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner terrible, often makes him feared.†
Chpt 33-34
- " 'Thank you,' said Luigi, drawing back his hand; 'I render a service, I do not sell it.†
Chpt 33-34 (definition 2)
- The person whose mysterious arrival had attracted the attention of Franz stood in a kind of half-light, that rendered it impossible to distinguish his features, although his dress was easily made out.†
Chpt 33-34 (definition 2)
- Well, then, only fulfil your promise of rescuing Peppino, and henceforward you shall receive not only devotion, but the most absolute obedience from myself and those under me that one human being can render to another.†
Chpt 33-34 (definition 2)
- …young man, was also possessed of considerable talent and ability; moreover, he was a viscount—a recently created one, certainly, but in the present day it is not necessary to go as far back as Noah in tracing a descent, and a genealogical tree is equally estimated, whether dated from 1399 or merely 1815; but to crown all these advantages, Albert de Morcerf commanded an income of 50,000 livres, a more than sufficient sum to render him a personage of considerable importance in Paris.†
Chpt 33-34 (definition 2)
- The next day must clear up every doubt; and unless his near neighbor and would-be friend, the Count of Monte Cristo, possessed the ring of Gyges, and by its power was able to render himself invisible, it was very certain he could not escape this time.†
Chpt 33-34 (definition 2)
- Stay, I think I told my steward yesterday to attend to this; perhaps I can render you this slight service also.†
Chpt 35-36 (definition 2)
- A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter; he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from heaven that portion of happiness God his promised to every one of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy; and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart.†
Chpt 35-36 (definition 2)
- "But," said Franz to the count, "with this theory, which renders you at once judge and executioner of your own cause, it would be difficult to adopt a course that would forever prevent your falling under the power of the law.†
Chpt 35-36 (definition 1)
- Have you not just rendered him a service that can never be forgotten?†
Chpt 37-38 (definition 2)
- "I will show you the way back myself," said the captain; "that is the least honor that I can render to your excellency."†
Chpt 37-38 (definition 2)
- The first words that Albert uttered to his friend, on the following morning, contained a request that Franz would accompany him on a visit to the count; true, the young man had warmly and energetically thanked the count on the previous evening; but services such as he had rendered could never be too often acknowledged.†
Chpt 37-38 (definition 2)
- "My dear count," said Albert, advancing to meet him, "permit me to repeat the poor thanks I offered last night, and to assure you that the remembrance of all I owe to you will never be effaced from my memory; believe me, as long as I live, I shall never cease to dwell with grateful recollection on the prompt and important service you rendered me; and also to remember that to you I am indebted even for my life."†
Chpt 37-38 (definition 2)
- Now, then, Franz, when, for services so promptly and unhesitatingly rendered, he but asks me in return to do for him what is done daily for any Russian prince or Italian nobleman who may pass through Paris—merely to introduce him into society—would you have me refuse?†
Chpt 37-38 (definition 2)
- I kept the third for myself, and I had it hollowed out, which reduced its value, but rendered it more commodious for the purpose I intended.†
Chpt 39-40 (definition 2)
- There is but one service I can render you, and for that I place myself entirely at your orders, that is, to present, or make my friends present, you everywhere; besides, you have no need of any one to introduce you—with your name, and your fortune, and your talent" (Monte Cristo bowed with a somewhat ironical smile) "you can present yourself everywhere, and be well received.†
Chpt 39-40 (definition 2)
- I can be useful in one way only—if knowledge of Parisian habits, of the means of rendering yourself comfortable, or of the bazaars, can assist, you may depend upon me to find you a fitting dwelling here.†
Chpt 39-40
- "What matter," said Monte Cristo "if he has rendered the State services which merit this distinction?"†
Chpt 39-40 (definition 2)
- This house, in past years, did ours a great service, and has, I know not for what reason, always denied having rendered us this service.†
Chpt 39-40 (definition 2)
- "We must content ourselves, then," said Beauchamp, "with rendering the count all the little services in our power.†
Chpt 39-40
- Consider yourself as in your own house, and to put yourself still more at your ease, pray accompany me to the apartments of M. de Morcerf, he whom I wrote from Rome an account of the services you rendered me, and to whom I announced your promised visit, and I may say that both the count and countess anxiously desire to thank you in person.†
Chpt 41-42 (definition 2)
- "You are most welcome, monsieur," said the Count of Morcerf, saluting Monte Cristo with a smile, "and monsieur has rendered our house, in preserving its only heir, a service which insures him our eternal gratitude."†
Chpt 41-42 (definition 2)
- "These are the ideas that render your nation superior to any other," returned Monte Cristo.†
Chpt 41-42 (definition 2)
- "Alas, excellency," returned Bertuccio, joining his hands, and shaking his head in a manner that would have excited the count's laughter, had not thoughts of a superior interest occupied him, and rendered him attentive to the least revelation of this timorous conscience.†
Chpt 43-44 (definition 2)
- The boy triumphed, and this victory rendered him so audacious, that all the money of Assunta, whose affection for him seemed to increase as he became more unworthy of it, was spent in caprices she knew not how to contend against, and follies she had not the courage to prevent.†
Chpt 43-44 (definition 2)
- Whether success rendered us imprudent, or whether we were betrayed, I know not; but one evening, about five o'clock, our little cabin-boy came breathlessly, to inform us that he had seen a detachment of custom-house officers advancing in our direction.†
Chpt 43-44 (definition 2)
- I had been tracked by a customs-officer, who had lost sight of me near the tavern; feeling certain that I intended to pass the night there, he had returned to summon his comrades, who just arrived in time to hear the report of the pistol, and to take me in the midst of such circumstantial proofs of my guilt as rendered all hopes of proving my innocence utterly futile.†
Chpt 45-46 (definition 2)
- After a brief silence, rendered still more solemn by the time and place, the count said, in a tone of melancholy wholly unlike his usual manner, "In order to bring this conversation to a fitting termination (the last we shall ever hold upon this subject), I will repeat to you some words I have heard from the lips of the Abbe Busoni.†
Chpt 45-46 (definition 2)
- I was made baron, and ... in return for services rendered,
Chpt 45-46 (definition 2) *rendered = given
- I cannot allow him to acquire the habit of expecting to be recompensed for every trifling service he may render.†
Chpt 47-48 (definition 2)
- "Sir," said Villefort, in the squeaky tone assumed by magistrates in their oratorical periods, and of which they cannot, or will not, divest themselves in society, "sir, the signal service which you yesterday rendered to my wife and son has made it a duty for me to offer you my thanks.†
Chpt 47-48 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (render as in: rendered her unconscious) to make or cause to become
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(2) (render as in: rendered service or a verdict) to give or supply something
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(render as in: rendered interpretation) to portray or create something in a particular way; or to interpret, translate, or extract fromThe exact meaning of this sense of render depends upon its context. For example:
- "Each artist will render a different interpretation when painting a portrait." -- create in a particular way
- "A Supreme Court judge may render his own interpretation of the Constitution." -- interpret in a particular way
- "The computer you are using, rendered this page from software instructions." -- created through interpretation
- "A graph is rendered from the underlying data." -- made
- "Fat can be rendered (extracted) by cooking meat slowly." -- extracted from