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A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight
2 "It is the law," remarked the ancient clerk, turning his surprised spectacles upon him.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight
3 The bank closed, the ancient clerks came out, the usual watch was set, and Mr. Cruncher and his son went home to tea.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
4 That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredly have had one.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
5 Then Mr. Stryver turned and burst out of the Bank, causing such a concussion of air on his passage through, that to stand up against it bowing behind the two counters, required the utmost remaining strength of the two ancient clerks.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
6 The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
7 So, he pushed open the door with the weak rattle in its throat, stumbled down the two steps, got past the two ancient cashiers, and shouldered himself into the musty back closet where Mr. Lorry sat at great books ruled for figures, with perpendicular iron bars to his window as if that were ruled for figures too, and everything under the clouds were a sum.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy