Coffer
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Of the treasures contained in the
coffer
left by Captain Nemo to the colonists of Lincoln Island, the larger portion was employed in the purchase of a vast territory in the State of Iowa.
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Athos always carried the key of this
coffer
about him; but he one day opened it before Porthos, and Porthos was convinced that this
coffer
contained nothing but letters and papers--love letters and family papers, no doubt.
He was about to see in reality a certain
coffer
of which he had twenty times beheld the image in his dreams--a
coffer
long and deep, locked, bolted, fastened in the wall; a
coffer
of which he had so often heard, and which the hands--a little wrinkled, it is true, but still not without elegance--of the procurator’s wife were about to open to his admiring looks.
Porthos comprehended that this chest, although it did not correspond in shape with that which he had seen in his dreams, must be the blessed coffer, and he congratulated himself that the reality was several feet higher than the dream.
During our expedition to Bethune the husband of my duchess died; so, my dear, the
coffer
of the defunct holding out its arms to me, I shall marry the widow.
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