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Definition
the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and one of two European Union Parliament buildings
- Why do you not realize a six months', a year's advance even, and retire to Brussels?Chapters 81-82 (29% in)
- Many said your father had only to show himself to crush the charge against him; many others said he would not appear; while some asserted that they had seen him start for Brussels; and others went to the police-office to inquire if he had taken out a passport.Chapters 85-86 (62% in)
- To Brussels, if you like; it is the nearest frontier.Chapters 97-98 (22% in)
- We can go to Brussels, Liege, Aix-la-Chapelle; then up the Rhine to Strasburg.Chapters 97-98 (22% in)
- And now let us leave Mademoiselle Danglars and her friend pursuing their way to Brussels, and return to poor Andrea Cavalcanti, so inopportunely interrupted in his rise to fortune.Chapters 97-98 (34% in)
- The next day they stopped at the Hotel de Flandre, at Brussels.Chapters 97-98 (**% in)
There are no more uses of "Brussels" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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