All 50 Uses of
utter
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The old man uttered a cry, and turned round; then, seeing his son, he fell into his arms, pale and trembling.†
Chpt 1-2uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- Fernand closed his eyes, a burning sensation passed across his brow, and he was compelled to support himself by the table to prevent his falling from his chair; but in spite of all his efforts, he could not refrain from uttering a deep groan, which, however, was lost amid the noisy felicitations of the company.†
Chpt 5-6uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- "How can I tell you?" replied he; "I am, like yourself, utterly bewildered at all that is going on, and cannot in the least make out what it is about."†
Chpt 5-6 *utterly = completely or totally
- The emperor, now king of the petty Island of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting as his subjects a small population of five or six thousand souls,—after having been accustomed to hear the "Vive Napoleons" of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten different languages,—was looked upon here as a ruined man, separated forever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne.†
Chpt 5-6uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- Renee uttered a smothered exclamation.†
Chpt 5-6
- With the deputy's knowledge of crime and criminals, every word the young man uttered convinced him more and more of his innocence.†
Chpt 7-8
- The jailer was right; Dantes wanted but little of being utterly mad.†
Chpt 7-8utterly = completely or totally
- But remorse is not thus banished; like Virgil's wounded hero, he carried the arrow in his wound, and, arrived at the salon, Villefort uttered a sigh that was almost a sob, and sank into a chair.†
Chpt 9-10uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- Any other than yourself would have considered the disclosure of M. de Villefort insignificant, or else dictated by venal ambition," These words were an allusion to the sentiments which the minister of police had uttered with so much confidence an hour before.†
Chpt 11-12
- Dantes uttered blasphemies that made his jailer recoil with horror, dashed himself furiously against the walls of his prison, wreaked his anger upon everything, and chiefly upon himself, so that the least thing,—a grain of sand, a straw, or a breath of air that annoyed him, led to paroxysms of fury.†
Chpt 15-16
- These few words were uttered with an accent that left no doubt of his sincerity; Dantes rose, dispersed the fragments with the same precaution as before, and pushed his bed back against the wall.†
Chpt 15-16
- I am about to be seized with a fit of catalepsy; when it comes to its height I shall probably lie still and motionless as though dead, uttering neither sigh nor groan.†
Chpt 17-18uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- help!" cried the abbe, "I—I—die—I"— So sudden and violent was the fit that the unfortunate prisoner was unable to complete the sentence; a violent convulsion shook his whole frame, his eyes started from their sockets, his mouth was drawn on one side, his cheeks became purple, he struggled, foamed, dashed himself about, and uttered the most dreadful cries, which, however, Dantes prevented from being heard by covering his head with the blanket.†
Chpt 17-18uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- He had taken the silence of the old man for a return to reason; and now these few words uttered by Faria, after so painful a crisis, seemed to indicate a serious relapse into mental alienation.†
Chpt 17-18
- Edmond uttered a cry of agony, and, quite out of his senses, rushed towards the door, exclaiming, "Help, help!"†
Chpt 19-20
- At last, with a horrible splash, he darted like an arrow into the ice-cold water, and as he did so he uttered a shrill cry, stifled in a moment by his immersion beneath the waves.†
Chpt 19-20
- Then the tunnel will be discovered; the men who cast me into the sea and who must have heard the cry I uttered, will be questioned.†
Chpt 22-23
- As Dantes (his eyes turned in the direction of the Chateau d'If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomegue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor's eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan.†
Chpt 22-23
- In a few hours my strength will be utterly exhausted; besides, perhaps I have not been missed at the fortress.†
Chpt 22-23utterly = completely or totally
- By a violent effort he rose half out of the water, waving his cap, and uttering a loud shout peculiar to sailers.†
Chpt 22-23uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- He rose again to the surface, struggled with the last desperate effort of a drowning man, uttered a third cry, and felt himself sinking, as if the fatal cannon shot were again tied to his feet.†
Chpt 22-23uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- Dantes was so exhausted that the exclamation of joy he uttered was mistaken for a sigh.†
Chpt 22-23
- Dantes uttered a cry of joy and surprise; never had a first attempt been crowned with more perfect success.†
Chpt 23-24
- This time he fell on his knees, and, clasping his hands convulsively, uttered a prayer intelligible to God alone.†
Chpt 23-24
- The island was utterly deserted, and bore no evidence of having been visited since he went away; his treasure was just as he had left it.†
Chpt 25-26utterly = completely or totally
- "But the strangest part of the story is," resumed the abbe, "that Dantes, even in his dying moments, swore by his crucified Redeemer, that he was utterly ignorant of the cause of his detention."†
Chpt 25-26
- 'You will go to Marseilles,' said Dantes,—for you understand, I repeat his words just as he uttered them.†
Chpt 25-26uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- Oh, it is impossible—utterly impossible!†
Chpt 25-26utterly = completely or totally
- La Carconte muttered a few inarticulate words, then let her head again drop upon her knees, and went into a fit of ague, leaving the two speakers to resume the conversation, but remaining so as to be able to hear every word they uttered.†
Chpt 25-26uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- The abbe uttered a kind of groan.†
Chpt 27-28
- "Yes," continued Caderousse, "so it is; after five and twenty years of labor, after having acquired a most honorable name in the trade of Marseilles, M. Morrel is utterly ruined; he has lost five ships in two years, has suffered by the bankruptcy of three large houses, and his only hope now is in that very Pharaon which poor Dantes commanded, and which is expected from the Indies with a cargo of cochineal and indigo.†
Chpt 27-28utterly = completely or totally
- Why, when I found myself utterly destitute, I thought my old friends would, perhaps, assist me.†
Chpt 27-28
- The abbe with difficulty got away from the enthusiastic thanks of Caderousse, opened the door himself, got out and mounted his horse, once more saluted the innkeeper, who kept uttering his loud farewells, and then returned by the road he had travelled in coming.†
Chpt 27-28uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- Scarcely had he uttered those words than Madame Morrel entered weeping bitterly.†
Chpt 29-30uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- These last words were uttered in so low a tone that the stranger could not hear them.†
Chpt 29-30
- Julie uttered a faint cry, blushed like a rose, and leaned against the baluster.†
Chpt 29-30
- She looked up and uttered an exclamation of joy.†
Chpt 29-30
- The young girl uttered a joyful cry, raised her eyes, looked round to question the messenger, but he had disappeared.†
Chpt 29-30
- Morrel uttered a cry of surprise at the sight of his son, of whose arrival he was ignorant.†
Chpt 29-30
- The young man uttered a groan, but appeared resigned.†
Chpt 29-30
- As Morrel and his son embraced on the pier-head, in the presence and amid the applause of the whole city witnessing this event, a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard, and who, concealed behind the sentry-box, watched the scene with delight, uttered these words in a low tone: "Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."†
Chpt 29-30
- Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.†
Chpt 31-32uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- All was vain; and he lost two hours in his attempts, which were at last utterly useless.†
Chpt 31-32utterly = completely or totally
- Gaetano reminded him that he had come for the purpose of shooting goats, which he had utterly forgotten.†
Chpt 31-32
- "Ah, a window!" exclaimed Signor Pastrini,—"utterly impossible; there was only one left on the fifth floor of the Doria Palace, and that has been let to a Russian prince for twenty sequins a day."†
Chpt 33-34
- '—'Yes,' replied the young girl, whose astonishment increased at every word uttered by Luigi, 'but of course your reply was only to please me.'†
Chpt 33-34uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
- Teresa uttered a cry of joy, and, without inquiring whence this attire came, or even thanking Luigi, darted into the grotto, transformed into a dressing-room.†
Chpt 33-34
- Teresa uttered a cry of admiration.†
Chpt 33-34
- Teresa had become alarmed at the wild and deserted look of the plain around her, and pressed closely against her guide, not uttering a syllable; but as she saw him advance with even step and composed countenance, she endeavored to repress her emotion.†
Chpt 33-34uttering = saying (or making a sound) with the voice
- Excited beyond his usual calm demeanor, Franz rose with the audience, and was about to join the loud, enthusiastic applause that followed; but suddenly his purpose was arrested, his hands fell by his sides, and the half-uttered "bravos" expired on his lips.†
Chpt 33-34uttered = said (or make a sound) with the voice
Definitions:
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(1)
(utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2)
(utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.