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1  Oh, a day and night soon pass away.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
2  The breeze had been so light all night, they had made but little progress.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
3  Bonacieux pushed a little servants' door, open by day but generally closed at night.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
4  Take my wealth, my fortune, my glory, all the days I have to live, for such an instant, for a night like that.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
5  They locked the mercer in the same dungeon where he had passed the night, and left him to himself during the day.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
6  From this phrase, "d'Artagnan awakened Planchet," the reader must not suppose it was night, or that day was hardly come.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
7  Unfortunately the light had been removed into another chamber; but the eyes of the young man were accustomed to the night.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
8  He asked where their masters were, and was informed that they had passed the night in the inn, and were then settling their bill with the host.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
9  D'Artagnan, reflecting on his future amours, addressing himself to the beautiful night, and smiling at the stars, ascended the Rue Cherish-Midi, or Chase-Midi, as it was then called.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
10  He sat all night on his stool, starting at the least noise; and when the first rays of the sun penetrated into his chamber, the dawn itself appeared to him to have taken funereal tints.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
11  As they had long been acquainted with the king, they were not much excited; but d'Artagnan, with his Gascon imagination, saw in it his future fortune, and passed the night in golden dreams.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
12  In proportion as they redoubled the exorcisms he redoubled the temptations; so that day and night the bell was ringing full swing, announcing the extreme desire for mortification which the penitent experienced.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
13  This was more than poor Bonacieux could endure, depressed as he was by the successive emotions which he had experienced; he uttered a feeble groan which night have been taken for the last sigh of a dying man, and fainted.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
14  By day they did nothing but ascend and descend the steps which led to the chapel; at night, in addition to complines and matins, they were further obliged to leap twenty times out of their beds and prostrate themselves on the floor of their cells.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
15  This being properly done, they drew the Comte de Wardes close to his servant; and as night was approaching, and as the wounded man and the bound man were at some little distance within the wood, it was evident they were likely to remain there till the next day.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
16  D'Artagnan was passing along a lane on the spot where the Rue d'Assas is now situated, breathing the balmy emanations which were borne upon the wind from the Rue de Vaugirard, and which arose from the gardens refreshed by the dews of evening and the breeze of night.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
17  The city carpenters had erected scaffolds upon which the invited ladies were to be placed; the city grocer had ornamented the chambers with two hundred FLAMBEAUX of white wax, a piece of luxury unheard of at that period; and twenty violins were ordered, and the price for them fixed at double the usual rate, upon condition, said the report, that they should be played all night.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
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