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1  He had been known in England as Charles Darnay.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
2  If you have, don't expect me to befriend you when you get back to England.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX. The Game Made
3  But he lives unknown in England, he is no Marquis there; he is Mr. Charles Darnay.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
4  Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period
5  In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period
6  That he had fallen among far greater dangers than those which had developed themselves when he left England, he of course knew now.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
7  The traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from England in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
8  He tried to explain to me how that quarrel had arisen, and he said that, so far as he could judge, it was a wrong and foolish one on England's part.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
9  "England is very attractive to you, seeing how indifferently you have prospered there," he observed then, turning his calm face to his nephew with a smile.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
10  There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period
11  Not a mean village closed upon him, not a common barrier dropped across the road behind him, but he knew it to be another iron door in the series that was barred between him and England.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
12  That, it was certain the prisoner had, for longer than that, been in the habit of passing and repassing between France and England, on secret business of which he could give no honest account.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
13  More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
14  He had not returned sooner, he replied, simply because he had no means of living in France, save those he had resigned; whereas, in England, he lived by giving instruction in the French language and literature.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. Triumph
15  I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII. A Hand at Cards
16  But this is my father's story, sir; and I begin to think"--the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him--"that when I was left an orphan through my mother's surviving my father only two years, it was you who brought me to England.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
17  Because he had voluntarily relinquished a title that was distasteful to him, and a station that was distasteful to him, and had left his country--he submitted before the word emigrant in the present acceptation by the Tribunal was in use--to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. Triumph
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