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- A more than deathlike silence then reigned in the house.Chapters 103-104 (27% in)
- Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.Chapters 5-6 (21% in)
- Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper's reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to...Chapters 5-6 (58% in)
- "It might be so under the Bourbons, but at present"— "It has always been so, my dear Morrel, since the reign of Louis XIV.Chapters 13-14 (24% in)
- Then who reigns in France at this moment—Napoleon II.Chapters 15-16 (70% in)
- Well, you know he reigned over a rich valley which was overhung by the mountain whence he derived his picturesque name.Chapters 31-32 (63% in)
- Nature subdued must yield in the combat, the dream must succeed to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, then the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream.Chapters 31-32 (66% in)
- He descended, or rather seemed to descend, several steps, inhaling the fresh and balmy air, like that which may be supposed to reign around the grotto of Circe, formed from such perfumes as set the mind a dreaming, and such fires as burn the very senses; and he saw again all he had seen before his sleep, from Sinbad, his singular host, to Ali, the mute attendant; then all seemed to fade away and become confused before his eyes, like the last shadows of the magic lantern before it is...Chapters 31-32 (76% in)
- No, no, you must first say if you declare yourself for the king of a day who now reigns, or for his majesty the emperor.Chapters 75-76 (27% in)
- A cloud settled on his brow, evincing decided anxiety and uneasiness, instead of the expression of offended pride which had lately reigned there.Chapters 77-78 (70% in)
- The most profound terror reigned throughout the house.Chapters 79-80 (49% in)
- The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.Chapters 107-108 (2% in)
There are no more uses of "reign" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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