All 44 Uses of
prudent
in
The Three Musketeers
- It was not that the sight of the wretched pony did not excite numerous smiles on the countenances of passers-by; but as against the side of this pony rattled a sword of respectable length, and as over this sword gleamed an eye rather ferocious than haughty, these passers-by repressed their hilarity, or if hilarity prevailed over prudence, they endeavored to laugh only on one side, like the masks of the ancients.†
Chpt 1.
- Yes, sir, I certainly committed that imprudence; but why should I have done otherwise?†
Chpt 3.
- Monsieur does not postpone an interview through prudence?†
Chpt 4.
- Prudence, monsieur, is a virtue sufficiently useless to Musketeers, I know, but indispensable to churchmen; and as I am only a Musketeer provisionally, I hold it good to be prudent.†
Chpt 4.
- Prudence, monsieur, is a virtue sufficiently useless to Musketeers, I know, but indispensable to churchmen; and as I am only a Musketeer provisionally, I hold it good to be prudent.†
Chpt 4.
- The hungry friends, followed by their lackeys, were seen haunting the quays and Guard rooms, picking up among their friends abroad all the dinners they could meet with; for according to the advice of Aramis, it was prudent to sow repasts right and left in prosperity, in order to reap a few in time of need.†
Chpt 8.
- I fear I am committing a great imprudence.†
Chpt 8.
- When they entered d'Artagnan's chamber, it was empty; the landlord, dreading the consequences of the encounter which was doubtless about to take place between the young man and the stranger, had, consistent with the character he had given himself, judged it prudent to decamp.†
Chpt 8.
- It is not courage that is needed; it is prudence.
Chpt 9. *prudence = good sense and caution
- In spite of his prudence, d'Artagnan restrained himself with great difficulty from taking a part in the scene that was going on below.†
Chpt 10.
- So far from it, madame, he was too proud of your prudence, and above all, of your love.†
Chpt 10.
- "Besides," said d'Artagnan, "pardon me, madame, if, guardsman as I am, I remind you of prudence—besides, I believe we are not here in a very proper place for imparting confidences.†
Chpt 10.
- D'Artagnan found his advice prudent.†
Chpt 10.
- Curiosity prevailed over prudence; and profiting by the preoccupation into which the sight of the handkerchief appeared to have plunged the two personages now on the scene, he stole from his hiding place, and quick as lightning, but stepping with utmost caution, he ran and placed himself close to the angle of the wall, from which his eye could pierce the interior of Aramis's room.†
Chpt 11.
- But you, madame, prudent as you are, think, if you were to be arrested with that handkerchief, and that handkerchief were to be seized, would you not be compromised?†
Chpt 11.
- Courage, my friend, but above all, prudence, and think what you owe to the queen.†
Chpt 18.
- While he was listening to this recital, delivered with the greatest simplicity, the duke looked from time to time at the young man with astonishment, as if he could not comprehend how so much prudence, courage, and devotedness could be allied with a countenance which indicated not more than twenty years.†
Chpt 21.
- As to d'Artagnan, being at bottom a prudent youth, instead of returning home, went and dined with the Gascon priest, who, at the time of the distress of the four friends, had given them a breakfast of chocolate.†
Chpt 23.
- Monsieur, we must not confound prudence with cowardice; prudence is a virtue.†
Chpt 24.
- Monsieur, we must not confound prudence with cowardice; prudence is a virtue.†
Chpt 24.
- All that the prudent Planchet had said to him the preceding evening about the sinister character of the old man recurred to the mind of d'Artagnan, who looked at him with more attention than he had done before.†
Chpt 25.
- A terrible inclination seized d'Artagnan to grasp the mercer by the throat and strangle him; but, as we have said, he was a very prudent youth, and he restrained himself.†
Chpt 25.
- His natural prudence, however, never forsook him for a single instant.†
Chpt 25.
- Perhaps it would not be prudent to ask at once what had become of the Musketeer.†
Chpt 25.
- Our Bearnais was a prudent lad, however young he might be.†
Chpt 26.
- Porthos, abated, no doubt, of his too-great confidence by his adventure of Chantilly, played with skill and prudence.†
Chpt 31.
- Athos listened to his projects, then shook his head, and recommended prudence to him with a shade of bitterness.†
Chpt 31.
- D'Artagnan, who, as we have said, was exceedingly prudent for a young man of twenty, then remembered his suspicions regarding Milady.†
Chpt 31.
- A gallant knight cannot decline a rendezvous with a lady; but a prudent gentleman may excuse himself from not waiting on his Eminence, particularly when he has reason to believe he is not invited to make his compliments.†
Chpt 39.
- Nevertheless, Monsieur de Treville's company of Musketeers alone cannot maintain a war against the cardinal, who disposes of the forces of all France, and before whom the queen is without power and the king without will. d'Artagnan, my friend, you are brave, you are prudent, you have excellent qualities; but the women will ruin you!"†
Chpt 39.
- "You are brave, Monsieur d'Artagnan," continued his Eminence; "you are prudent, which is still better.†
Chpt 40.
- A longer stay in this dangerous spot would have been useless imprudence.†
Chpt 41.
- "Be prudent, Athos," said Aramis.†
Chpt 44.
- "It appears to me," said d'Artagnan, with that prudence which allied itself in him so naturally with excessive bravery, "that we could have found some retired place on the downs or the seashore."†
Chpt 46.
- Yes, madame, it is the custom, not from gallantry but prudence, that in time of war foreigners should be conducted to particular hotels, in order that they may remain under the eye of the government until full information can be obtained about them.†
Chpt 49.
- The first idea that occurred to Milady's mind was that she had been betrayed by Kitty, and that she had recounted to the baron the selfish aversion toward himself of which she had imprudently allowed some marks to escape before her servant.†
Chpt 50.
- That knife, which the fatal prudence of the baron deprived me of, because he knows the use I would make of it!†
Chpt 54.
- De Winter has changed his usual stupidity into a strange prudence.†
Chpt 55.
- The bed, which she had kept from prudence and that they might believe her seriously wounded, burned her like a bed of fire.†
Chpt 58.
- She did not know whether the abbess was a royalist or a cardinalist; she therefore confined herself to a prudent middle course.†
Chpt 61.
- But the abbess, on her part, maintained a reserve still more prudent, contenting herself with making a profound inclination of the head every time the fair traveler pronounced the name of his Eminence.†
Chpt 61.
- I thought so, too; but a letter which Madame Bonacieux has received from Madame the Constable, and which she has had the imprudence to show me, leads me to believe that these four men, on the contrary, are on the road hither to take her away.†
Chpt 62.
- Although warned that the man she had loved so much was in great danger, the queen, when his death was announced to her, would not believe the fact, and even imprudently exclaimed, "it is false; he has just written to me!"†
Chpt 67.
- One day he had the imprudence to recall himself to the memory of the cardinal.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful