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Definition
anything necessary or required for a particular purpose
- This one is built against the solid rock, and it would take ten experienced miners, duly furnished with the requisite tools, as many years to perforate it.Chapters 15-16 (63% in)
- "You know that I am as capable of managing a ship as the most experienced captain in the service; and it will be so far advantageous to you to accept my services, that upon Edmond's release from prison no further change will be requisite on board the Pharaon than for Dantes and myself each to resume our respective posts."Chapters 5-6 (50% in)
- This same person, with almost incredible patience and perseverance, had contrived to provide himself with tools requisite for so unparalleled an attempt.Chapters 15-16 (81% in)
- We shall save you another time, as we have done this, only with a better chance of success, because we shall be able to command every requisite assistance.Chapters 17-18 (58% in)
- "Still," said the governor, "I believe it will be requisite, notwithstanding your certainty, and not that I doubt your science, but in discharge of my official duty, that we should be perfectly assured that the prisoner is dead."Chapters 19-20 (54% in)
- ...he gained a round profit of at least eighty per cent. The following day Dantes presented Jacopo with an entirely new vessel, accompanying the gift by a donation of one hundred piastres, that he might provide himself with a suitable crew and other requisites for his outfit, upon condition that he would go at once to Marseilles for the purpose of inquiring after an old man named Louis Dantes, residing in the Allees de Meillan, and also a young woman called Mercedes, an inhabitant of the...Chapters 25-26 (8% in)
- They have been all hired this fortnight, and there are none left but those absolutely requisite for posting.Chapters 31-32 (99% in)
- I have engaged the three lower windows at the Cafe Rospoli; should I have obtained the requisite pardon for Peppino, the two outside windows will be hung with yellow damasks, and the centre with white, having a large cross in red marked on it.Chapters 33-34 (61% in)
- I have not time for anybody's affairs but my own and those of my honorable guests; but I make an agreement with the man who pastes up the papers, and he brings them to me as he would the playbills, that in case any person staying at my hotel should like to witness an execution, he may obtain every requisite information concerning the time and place etc." "Upon my word, that is a most delicate attention on your part, Signor Pastrini," cried Franz.Chapters 33-34 (96% in)
- Make the requisite inquiries for a place of this description, and when you have met with an eligible spot, visit it, and if it possess the advantages desired, purchase it at once in your own name.Chapters 45-46 (71% in)
- Illness of body would not affect the validity of the deed, but sanity of mind is absolutely requisite.Chapters 59-60 (7% in)
- This woman gave all the requisite particulars, and it was intrusted to her.Chapters 67-68 (57% in)
- The house was ready, and the sloop which had arrived a week before lay at anchor in a small creek with her crew of six men, who had observed all the requisite formalities and were ready again to put to sea.Chapters 81-82 (57% in)
- As Bertuccio was leaving the room to give the requisite orders, Baptistin opened the door: he held a letter on a silver waiter.Chapters 81-82 (58% in)
- "Not at all; we have received with the information all the requisite proofs, and we are quite sure M. de Morcerf will not raise his voice against us; besides, it is rendering a service to one's country to denounce these wretched criminals who are unworthy of the honor bestowed on them."Chapters 85-86 (47% in)
- From the same drawer she took a man's complete costume, from the boots to the coat, and a provision of linen, where there was nothing superfluous, but every requisite.Chapters 97-98 (18% in)
- "Needless delays but increase the grief of parting," said Monte Cristo, "and Maximilian has doubtless provided himself with everything requisite; at least, I advised him to do so."Chapters 111-112 (45% in)
There are no more uses of "requisite" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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