1 It advanced swiftly and gracefully, leaving behind it a glittering stretch of foam.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 2 A slight appearance of foam was visible around the mouth, and he breathed painfully, and with extreme difficulty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 79. The Lemonade. 3 Soon a red streak became visible in the horizon, the waves whitened, a light played over them, and gilded their foaming crests with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 4 On the other hand, the symptoms may be much more violent, and cause me to fall into fearful convulsions, foam at the mouth, and cry out loudly.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber. 5 There for some time he enjoyed the fresh breeze which played on his brow, and listened to the dash of the waves on the beach, that left against the rocks a lace of foam as white as silver.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 6 In a moment he restrained himself so powerfully that the tempestuous heaving of his breast subsided, as turbulent and foaming waves yield to the sun's genial influence when the cloud has passed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal. 7 The crisis was terrible, and a rigid form with twisted limbs, swollen eyelids, and lips flecked with bloody foam, lay on the bed of torture, in place of the intellectual being who so lately rested there.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 8 Sometimes," said he, "in my voyages, when I was a man and commanded other men, I have seen the heavens overcast, the sea rage and foam, the storm arise, and, like a monstrous bird, beating the two horizons with its wings.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 9 Ali had, indeed, given proof of this; for, approaching the animals, who had been got upon their legs with considerable difficulty, he rubbed their foreheads and nostrils with a sponge soaked in aromatic vinegar, and wiped off the sweat and foam that covered their mouths.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays. 10 He saw overhead a black and tempestuous sky, across which the wind was driving clouds that occasionally suffered a twinkling star to appear; before him was the vast expanse of waters, sombre and terrible, whose waves foamed and roared as if before the approach of a storm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 11 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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.