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The Count of Monte Cristo
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- 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
- 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 5-6
- 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
- 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 9-10
- 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
- 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 17-18
- 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
- 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 22-23
- 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
- 'You will go to Marseilles,' said Dantes,—for you understand, I repeat his words just as he uttered them.†
Chpt 25-26
- 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 25-26
- The abbe uttered a kind of groan.†
Chpt 27-28
- Scarcely had he uttered those words than Madame Morrel entered weeping bitterly.†
Chpt 29-30
- 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
- '—'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 33-34
- 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
- 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 33-34
- I did; but they were uttered in the Romaic dialect.†
Chpt 33-34
- Albert, who was a great smoker, and who had considered it no small sacrifice to be deprived of the cigars of the Cafe de Paris, approached the table, and uttered a cry of joy at perceiving some veritable puros.†
Chpt 35-36
- The first words that Albert uttered to his friend, on the following morning, contained a request that Franz would accompany him on a visit to the count; true, the young man had warmly and energetically thanked the count on the previous evening; but services such as he had rendered could never be too often acknowledged.†
Chpt 37-38
- The young men looked at each other; they did not know if it was a comedy Monte Cristo was playing, but every word he uttered had such an air of simplicity, that it was impossible to suppose what he said was false—besides, why should he tell a falsehood?†
Chpt 39-40
- Monte Cristo glanced rapidly at Albert, as if to seek a hidden meaning in his words, but it was evident the young man uttered them in the simplicity of his heart.†
Chpt 41-42
- It would have required the penetration of Oedipus or the Sphinx to have divined the irony the count concealed beneath these words, apparently uttered with the greatest politeness.†
Chpt 41-42
- At these words, uttered with the most exquisite sweetness and politeness, Madame de Morcerf replied.†
Chpt 41-42 *
- In my turn I uttered a cry, but a cry of joy.†
Chpt 43-44
- I uttered a cry of joy; the only moments of sadness I had known since the assassination of the procureur were caused by the recollection that I had abandoned this child.†
Chpt 43-44
- The woman's lips seemed to move, as though she were talking; but because she merely spoke in an undertone, or my senses were dulled by sleep, I did not catch a word she uttered.†
Chpt 45-46
- Bertuccio hid his face in his hands as he uttered these words, while Monte Cristo fixed on him a look of inscrutable meaning.†
Chpt 45-46
- Having delivered himself of this pompous address, uttered with a degree of energy that left the baron almost out of breath, he bowed to the assembled party and withdrew to his drawing-room, whose sumptuous furnishings of white and gold had caused a great sensation in the Chaussee d'Antin.†
Chpt 45-46
- The carriage creaked and rattled as it flew over the rough stones, and the slightest obstacle under the wheels would have caused disaster; but it kept on in the middle of the road, and those who saw it pass uttered cries of terror.†
Chpt 47-48
- At sight of him Madame de Villefort uttered an expression of pleasure, and, holding the child still closer towards her, she said, "Edward, dearest, do you see that good man?†
Chpt 47-48
- Monte Cristo with a smile on his lips, uttered in the depths of his soul a groan which would have made Villefort fly had he but heard it.†
Chpt 47-48
- She uttered a cry of surprise at the sight of a stranger, and Maximilian began to laugh.†
Chpt 49-50
- Maximilian uttered a cry of delight, and, springing forwards, seized the hand extended towards him, and imprinted on it a fervent and impassioned kiss.†
Chpt 57-58
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) Less commonly, and archaically, utter can mean to let out.