All 10 Uses of
The Three Musketeers
in
Slaughterhouse-Five
- They called themselves 'The Three Musketeers.'
Chpt 2 *The Three Musketeers = a name based upon characters in Alexander Dumas' action-packed adventure tale of friendship, courage, and loyalty (1844)
- The Three Musketeers pushed and carried and dragged the college kid all the way back to their own lines, Weary's story went.
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- An officer was congratulating the Three Musketeers, telling them that he was going to put them in for Bronze Stars.
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- When he gets out of this, by God, he's gonna owe his life to the Three Musketeers.
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- 'So what do the Three Musketeers do now?' he said.
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- He dilated upon the piety and heroism of 'The Three Musketeers,' portrayed, in the most glowing and impassioned hues, their virtue and magnanimity, the imperishable honor they acquired for themselves, and the great services they rendered to Christianity, It was entirely Billy's fault that this fighting organization no longer existed, Weary felt, and Billy was going to pay.
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- So Roland Weary was the last of the Three Musketeers.
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- Weary, in his nearly continuous delirium, told again and again of the Three Musketeers, acknowledged that he was dying, gave many messages to be delivered to his family in Pittsburgh.
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- He was back in the forest in Luxembourg again-with the Three Musketeers.
Chpt 7
- Is there some way you can fix it so nobody will ever break up the Three Musketeers?†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(The Three Musketeers) Alexander Dumas' popular historical adventure tale in which d'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers fight "One for all, and all for one." (1844)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)