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1  And d'Artagnan set the example.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
2  On the contrary, sire, set the example.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
3  Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan followed his example.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
4  D'Artagnan thought it was proper to follow this example.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
5  He had scarcely entered when he began to agitate his nose and his jaws after the example of his clerks.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
6  The novice, seeing Milady in bed, was about to follow the example of the superior; but Milady stopped her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
7  Throwing down his spit, and ordering his wife to do the same with her broom handle, and the servants with their sticks, he set the first example of commencing an earnest search for the lost letter.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
8  I am very ignorant of these matters," said the abbess, at length; "but however distant from the court we may be, however remote from the interests of the world we may be placed, we have very sad examples of what you have related.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
9  I am not willing that a compatriot, a handsome cavalier, a brave youth, quite fit to make his way, should become the dupe of all these artifices and fall into the snare after the example of so many others who have been ruined by it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE AUDIENCE
10  He complicated this exordium by an exposition in which he painted the power and the deeds of the cardinal, that incomparable minister, that conqueror of past ministers, that example for ministers to come--deeds and power which none could thwart with impunity.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
11  Some fragments of past splendor appeared here and there upon the walls of this modest lodging; a sword, for example, richly embossed, which belonged by its make to the times of Francis I, the hilt of which alone, encrusted with precious stones, might be worth two hundred pistoles, and which, nevertheless, in his moments of greatest distress Athos had never pledged or offered for sale.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
ContextHighlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS