All 8 Uses of
treachery
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- "I perfectly well remember Perugia, sir, and the Hotel des Postes, and the festival of which you speak," said Madame de Villefort, "but in vain do I tax my memory, of whose treachery I am ashamed, for I really do not recall to mind that I ever had the pleasure of seeing you before."†
Chpt 51-52
- "Wretch!" exclaimed Haidee, her eyes flashing with rage; "he sold my father to the Turks, and the fortune he boasts of was the price of his treachery!†
Chpt 53-54
- Our family, although still rich (for my father's income amounts to half a million), has experienced many misfortunes, and I myself was, at the age of five years, taken away by the treachery of my tutor, so that for fifteen years I have not seen the author of my existence.†
Chpt 55-56
- Having aroused the enmity of the Sultan, he was proscribed and put to death by treachery in 1822, at the age of eighty.†
Chpt 77-78
- It is not Fernand Mondego's treachery towards Ali Pasha which induces me so readily to excuse you, but the treachery of the fisherman Fernand towards you, and the almost unheard-of miseries which were its consequences; and I say, and proclaim it publicly, that you were justified in revenging yourself on my father, and I, his son, thank you for not using greater severity."†
Chpt 89-90
- It is not Fernand Mondego's treachery towards Ali Pasha which induces me so readily to excuse you, but the treachery of the fisherman Fernand towards you, and the almost unheard-of miseries which were its consequences; and I say, and proclaim it publicly, that you were justified in revenging yourself on my father, and I, his son, thank you for not using greater severity."†
Chpt 89-90
- This money was for her; I destined it for her, and, knowing the treachery of the sea I buried our treasure in the little garden of the house my father lived in at Marseilles, on the Allees de Meillan.†
Chpt 91-92
Definition:
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(treachery) the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays