1 The President rang his bell, and with warmth resumed.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX. The Game Made 2 The ringing of the bell had caused the adjoining bed-chamber to be lighted.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head 3 Better to be a rational creature," he added then, after ringing a small bell on the table, "and accept your natural destiny.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head 4 The show being over, the flutter in the air became quite a little storm, and the precious little bells went ringing downstairs.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town 5 Almost at the same moment, the bell of the great gate rang again, and a loud noise of feet and voices came pouring into the courtyard.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone 6 Twice more in the darkness the bell at the great gate sounded, and the irruption was repeated, and the grindstone whirled and spluttered.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone 7 It was not opened immediately, in answer to the ringing of the bell, and one of my two conductors struck the man who opened it, with his heavy riding glove, across the face.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow 8 Darkness closed around, and then came the ringing of church bells and the distant beating of the military drums in the Palace Courtyard, as the women sat knitting, knitting.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 9 The great bell of Saint Paul's was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People 10 Looking his companion full in the face while he drank the toast, Carton flung his glass over his shoulder against the wall, where it shivered to pieces; then, rang the bell, and ordered in another.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV. Congratulatory 11 Another darkness was closing in as surely, when the church bells, then ringing pleasantly in many an airy steeple over France, should be melted into thundering cannon; when the military drums should be beating to drown a wretched voice, that night all potent as the voice of Power and Plenty, Freedom and Life.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 12 The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved; these golden fetters rang like precious little bells; and what with that ringing, and with the rustle of silk and brocade and fine linen, there was a flutter in the air that fanned Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town