1 Nevertheless, they had not the power of convincing Milady.
2 That man had the power to crush him, and yet he had not done so.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 3 D'Artagnan has conquered her--her, that invincible power of evil.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY 4 He forgot the necessary slowness of navigation; he exaggerated to himself the power of Milady.
5 This woman exercised over him an unaccountable power; he hated and adored her at the same time.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID 6 Your power is great, I know; but you also know that with the help of God men have often conquered the most terrible demons.
7 It is closed after them, and they are arrested; so that at the end of two or three days they have in their power almost all the HABITUES of the establishment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 8 D'Artagnan looked with stupefaction at a man who thus employed the unlimited power with which he was clothed by the confidence of a king in the prosecution of his intrigues.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER 9 D'Artagnan trembled; and he likewise recollected that during the past half hour the poor woman had passed close to him, without doubt carried away by the same power that had caused her disappearance.
10 Up to that time, whether from devotedness or from want of power to act against it, this maxim, without being generally adopted, nevertheless passed from theory into practice; but the notes did it injury.
11 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.
12 Milady dreamed that she at length had d'Artagnan in her power, that she was present at his execution; and it was the sight of his odious blood, flowing beneath the ax of the headsman, which spread that charming smile upon her lips.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY 13 But however great was the power of this woman with eyes of flame in reading the hearts of those whose secrets she wished to divine, she met this time with a countenance of such impassivity that no discovery followed her investigation.
14 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 DumasContextHighlight In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 15 Sure of himself, convinced of his own power, certain that the laws which rule other men could not reach him, he went straight to the object he aimed at, even were this object were so elevated and so dazzling that it would have been madness for any other even to have contemplated it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM 16 Her voice, of immense power and sublime expression, gave to the rude, unpolished poetry of these psalms a magic and an effect which the most exalted Puritans rarely found in the songs of their brethren, and which they were forced to ornament with all the resources of their imagination.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY 17 There can be no doubt we would all be broken on the wheel; but for God's sake, do not forget, as you yourself said, Athos, that we only write to him concerning a family affair; that we only write to him to entreat that as soon as Milady arrives in London he will put it out of her power to injure us.
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