1 But d'Artagnan had reckoned without the wind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS 2 Not a breath of wind now disturbed the heavy atmosphere.
3 At length, after winding about for a minute or two, Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON 4 But the wind was contrary, the sea bad; they tacked and kept offshore.
5 The horses went like the wind, and in a few minutes they were at the gates of London.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER 6 As he was about to pass, the wind blew out Porthos's long cloak, and d'Artagnan rushed straight into the middle of it.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS 7 Beyond Portsmouth the sea was covered with vessels whose masts, like a forest of poplars despoiled by the winter, bent with each breath of the wind.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628 8 And Kitty, who had not let go the hand of d'Artagnan, led him up a little dark, winding staircase, and after ascending about fifteen steps, opened a door.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS 9 The four friends, during the period of these two absences, had, as may well be supposed, the eye on the watch, the nose to the wind, and the ear on the hark.
10 He may have fallen from his horse, he may have cut a caper from the deck; he may have traveled so fast against the wind as to have brought on a violent catarrh.
11 The storm increased, the flashes succeeded one another more rapidly, the thunder began to growl, and the wind, the precursor of a hurricane, whistled in the plumes and the hair of the horsemen.
12 Provincial diffidence, that slight varnish, the ephemeral flower, that down of the peach, had evaporated to the winds through the little orthodox counsels which the three Musketeers gave their friend.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 13 And the four friends, seconded by Grimaud, pushed with the barrels of their muskets an enormous sheet of the wall, which bent as if pushed by the wind, and detaching itself from its base, fell with a horrible crash into the ditch.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS 14 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 DumasContextHighlight In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 15 When the wind of adversity began to blow upon the housekeeping of the Rue des Fossoyeurs--that is to say, when the forty pistoles of King Louis XIII were consumed or nearly so--he commenced complaints which Athos thought nauseous, Porthos indecent, and Aramis ridiculous.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContextHighlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 16 At the moment he passed through the gateway into the street, the wind blew open the cloak in which he was wrapped, although it was in the month of August, and lifted his hat, which the traveler seized with his hand the moment it had left his head, pulling it eagerly over his eyes.
17 Passing alongside one of them, d'Artagnan fancied he perceived on board it the woman of Meung--the same whom the unknown gentleman had called Milady, and whom d'Artagnan had thought so handsome; but thanks to the current of the stream and a fair wind, his vessel passed so quickly that he had little more than a glimpse of her.
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