All 50 Uses of
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- He stifled, therefore, the feelings of compassion that were rising, composed his features, and sat down, grim and sombre, at his desk.†
Chpt 7-8 *therefore = for that reason
- "You see," continued he, glancing toward the grate, where fragments of burnt paper fluttered in the flames, "the letter is destroyed; you and I alone know of its existence; should you, therefore, be questioned, deny all knowledge of it—deny it boldly, and you are saved."†
Chpt 7-8
- He was conducted to a tolerably neat chamber, but grated and barred, and its appearance, therefore, did not greatly alarm him; besides, the words of Villefort, who seemed to interest himself so much, resounded still in his ears like a promise of freedom.†
Chpt 7-8
- , "Blacas is not yet convinced; let us proceed, therefore, to the usurper's conversion."†
Chpt 9-10
- Villefort, therefore, gained nothing save the king's gratitude (which was rather likely to injure him at the present time) and the cross of the Legion of Honor, which he had the prudence not to wear, although M. de Blacas had duly forwarded the brevet.†
Chpt 13-14
- The deputy-procureur was, therefore, the first magistrate of Marseilles, when one morning his door opened, and M. Morrel was announced.†
Chpt 13-14
- , and you did not show any favor—it was your duty; to-day you serve Napoleon, and you ought to protect him—it is equally your duty; I come, therefore, to ask what has become of him?†
Chpt 13-14
- He therefore informed M. Morrel of his wish to quit the sea, and obtained a recommendation from him to a Spanish merchant, into whose service he entered at the end of March, that is, ten or twelve days after Napoleon's return.†
Chpt 13-14
- This fortnight expired, he decided that the inspector would do nothing until his return to Paris, and that he would not reach there until his circuit was finished, he therefore fixed three months; three months passed away, then six more.†
Chpt 13-14
- Dantes was a man of great simplicity of thought, and without education; he could not, therefore, in the solitude of his dungeon, traverse in mental vision the history of the ages, bring to life the nations that had perished, and rebuild the ancient cities so vast and stupendous in the light of the imagination, and that pass before the eye glowing with celestial colors in Martin's Babylonian pictures.†
Chpt 15-16
- The jailer, therefore, only grumbled.†
Chpt 15-16
- This beam crossed, or rather blocked up, the hole Dantes had made; it was necessary, therefore, to dig above or under it.†
Chpt 15-16
- Let us, therefore, wait patiently for some favorable moment, and when it presents itself, profit by it.†
Chpt 15-16
- "I once thought," continued Faria, "of removing these iron bars, and letting myself down from the window, which, as you see, is somewhat wider than yours, although I should have enlarged it still more preparatory to my flight; however, I discovered that I should merely have dropped into a sort of inner court, and I therefore renounced the project altogether as too full of risk and danger.†
Chpt 17-18
- —I may be found here, therefore help me back to my room while I have the strength to drag myself along.†
Chpt 17-18
- It was therefore near seven o'clock; but Edmond's anxiety had put all thoughts of time out of his head.†
Chpt 17-18
- King of France, who was formidable still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.†
Chpt 17-18
- He therefore returned by the subterraneous gallery, and arrived in time to hear the exclamations of the turnkey, who called out for help.†
Chpt 19-20
- He remained, therefore, mute and motionless, hardly venturing to breathe.†
Chpt 19-20
- In spite of all appearances, be so kind, therefore, as to finish your duty by fulfilling the formalities described by law.†
Chpt 19-20
- Tiboulen and Lemaire were therefore the safest for Dantes' venture.†
Chpt 22-23
- By leaving this light on the right, he kept the Island of Tiboulen a little on the left; by turning to the left, therefore, he would find it.†
Chpt 22-23
- It was useless to search at night, and Dantes therefore delayed all investigation until the morning.†
Chpt 23-24
- Edmond concluded that perhaps instead of having reached the end of the route he had only explored its beginning, and he therefore turned round and retraced his steps.†
Chpt 23-24
- A bargain was therefore struck.†
Chpt 25-26
- The priest gazed on the person addressing him with a long and searching gaze—there even seemed a disposition on his part to court a similar scrutiny on the part of the inn-keeper; then, observing in the countenance of the latter no other expression than extreme surprise at his own want of attention to an inquiry so courteously worded, he deemed it as well to terminate this dumb show, and therefore said, speaking with a strong Italian accent, "You are, I presume, M. Caderousse?"†
Chpt 25-26
- But you tell me he is no more, and therefore can have nothing to do with hatred or revenge, so let all such feeling be buried with him.†
Chpt 25-26
- Mercedes remained, therefore, by his bedside, and M. Morrel went away, making a sign to the Catalan that he had left his purse on the chimney-piece.†
Chpt 27-28
- Tell me, therefore, who are these men who killed the son with despair, and the father with famine?†
Chpt 27-28
- What has become of Danglars, the instigator, and therefore the most guilty?†
Chpt 27-28
- I have come, therefore, express from Rome, to ask you for information.†
Chpt 27-28
- "No, no," said M. Morrel, "I am not angry, quite the contrary, and I do not send you away; but I have no more ships, and therefore I do not want any sailors."†
Chpt 29-30
- Great, therefore, was the astonishment when at the end of the month, he cancelled all his obligations with his usual punctuality.†
Chpt 29-30
- A last but final hope was concealed by the young man in the effect of this interview, and therefore he had suggested it.†
Chpt 29-30
- —'Cucumetto had violated thy daughter,' said the bandit; 'I loved her, therefore I slew her; for she would have served as the sport of the whole band.'†
Chpt 33-34
- We need scarcely say that all the paths of the mountain were known to Vampa; he therefore went forward without a moment's hesitation, although there was no beaten track, but he knew his path by looking at the trees and bushes, and thus they kept on advancing for nearly an hour and a half.†
Chpt 33-34
- It may, therefore, be easily imagined there is no scarcity of guides at the Colosseum, that wonder of all ages, which Martial thus eulogizes: "Let Memphis cease to boast the barbarous miracles of her pyramids, and the wonders of Babylon be talked of no more among us; all must bow to the superiority of the gigantic labor of the Caesars, and the many voices of Fame spread far and wide the surpassing merits of this incomparable monument."†
Chpt 33-34
- Scarcely, therefore, had the reflective Franz walked a hundred steps beneath the interior porticoes of the ruin, than, abandoning Albert to the guides (who would by no means yield their prescriptive right of carrying their victims through the routine regularly laid down, and as regularly followed by them, but dragged the unconscious visitor to the various objects with a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the Lions' Den, and finishing with Caesar's "Podium,"), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated hims†
Chpt 33-34
- As we have seen, therefore, he permitted his former host to retire without attempting a recognition, but fully promising himself a rich indemnity for his present forbearance should chance afford him another opportunity.†
Chpt 33-34
- The young men, therefore, had reason to consider themselves fortunate in having the opportunity of hearing one of the best works by the composer of "Lucia di Lammermoor," supported by three of the most renowned vocalists of Italy.†
Chpt 33-34
- It was therefore no small mortification to him to have visited most of the principal cities in Italy without having excited the most trifling observation.†
Chpt 33-34
- The Carnival was to commence on the morrow; therefore Albert had not an instant to lose in setting forth the programme of his hopes, expectations, and claims to notice.†
Chpt 33-34
- I have a party at my house to-night, and therefore cannot possibly remain till the end of the opera.†
Chpt 33-34
- In all probability, therefore, the Transteverin was no other than the bandit Luigi Vampa himself, and the man shrouded in the mantle the same he had known as "Sinbad the Sailor," but who, no doubt, was still pursuing his philanthropic expedition in Rome, as he had already done at Porto-Vecchio and Tunis.†
Chpt 33-34
- He resolved, therefore, to let things take their course without making any direct overture to the count.†
Chpt 35-36
- "His excellency the Count of Monte Cristo had," he said, "given positive orders that the carriage was to remain at their lordships' orders all day, and they could therefore dispose of it without fear of indiscretion."†
Chpt 35-36
- He therefore promised Albert that he would content himself the morrow with witnessing the Carnival from the windows of the Rospoli Palace.†
Chpt 35-36
- He therefore dined very silently, in spite of the officious attention of his host, who presented himself two or three times to inquire if he wanted anything.†
Chpt 37-38
- He ordered the carriage, therefore, for eleven o'clock, desiring Signor Pastrini to inform him the moment that Albert returned to the hotel.†
Chpt 37-38
- He was, therefore, about to return to the Palazzo Bracciano without loss of time, when suddenly a luminous idea crossed his mind.†
Chpt 37-38
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)