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Definition
conceited and self-centered
- Now, as I am not egotistical, we will return to our comrades and draw lots for her.Chapters 33-34 (22% in)
- The elder prisoner was one of those persons whose conversation, like that of all who have experienced many trials, contained many useful and important hints as well as sound information; but it was never egotistical, for the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.Chapters 17-18 (36% in)
- A sailor was rubbing his limbs with a woollen cloth; another, whom he recognized as the one who had cried out "Courage!" held a gourd full of rum to his mouth; while the third, an old sailer, at once the pilot and captain, looked on with that egotistical pity men feel for a misfortune that they have escaped yesterday, and which may overtake them to-morrow.Chapters 22-23 (37% in)
- Decidedly man is an ungrateful and egotistical animal.Chapters 35-36 (47% in)
- Franz was not sufficiently egotistical to stop Albert in the middle of an adventure that promised to prove so agreeable to his curiosity and so flattering to his vanity.Chapters 35-36 (79% in)
- "My dear count," cried Morcerf, "you are at fault—you, one of the most formidable logicians I know—and you must see it clearly proved that instead of being an egotist, you are a philanthropist.Chapters 39-40 (79% in)
- I do not dare offer to share my apartments with you, as I shared yours at Rome—I, who do not profess egotism, but am yet egotist par excellence; for, except myself, these rooms would not hold a shadow more, unless that shadow were feminine.Chapters 39-40 (83% in)
- "When I hear misfortunes named, madame," he said, "I have within the last few months contracted the bad habit of thinking of my own, and then I cannot help drawing up an egotistical parallel in my mind.Chapters 99-100 (38% in)
There are no more uses of "egotistical" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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