1 Julie returned, holding the silken purse in her hands, while tears of joy rolled down her cheeks, like dewdrops on the rose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 2 At any other time Valentine would have seized the silken bell-pull and summoned assistance, but nothing astonished her in her present situation.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 100. The Apparition. 3 Half an hour had passed when the carriage stopped suddenly; the count had just pulled the silken check-string, which was fastened to Ali's finger.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 112. The Departure. 4 The junction of the bodice and drawers was entirely concealed by one of the many-colored scarfs, whose brilliant hues and rich silken fringe have rendered them so precious in the eyes of Parisian belles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 49. Haidee. 5 "No, no," returned Monte Cristo, pale as death, pressing one hand on his heart to still its throbbings, while with the other he pointed to a crystal cover, beneath which a silken purse lay on a black velvet cushion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family. 6 To a Parisian accustomed to silken curtains, walls hung with velvet drapery, and the soft perfume of burning wood, the white smoke of which diffuses itself in graceful curves around the room, the appearance of the whitewashed cell which greeted his eyes on awakening seemed like the continuation of some disagreeable dream.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 115. Luigi Vampa's Bill of Fare. 7 A tall young man, with light hair, clear gray eyes, and thin and compressed lips, dressed in a blue coat with beautifully carved gold buttons, a white neckcloth, and a tortoiseshell eye-glass suspended by a silken thread, and which, by an effort of the superciliary and zygomatic muscles, he fixed in his eye, entered, with a half-official air, without smiling or speaking.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In Chapter 39. The Guests.