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1 The chateau was left to itself to flame and burn.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
2 His manner was so fervent and inspiring, that Mr. Lorry caught the flame, and was as quick as youth.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII. Darkness
3 Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
4 And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm
5 No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark, lay hidden in the dregs of it.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
6 Their arrival had lighted a kind of fire in the breast of Saint Antoine, fast spreading as they came along, which stirred and flickered in flames of faces at most doors and windows.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
7 Molten lead and iron boiled in the marble basin of the fountain; the water ran dry; the extinguisher tops of the towers vanished like ice before the heat, and trickled down into four rugged wells of flame.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
8 His indifference to fire was sufficiently remarkable to elicit a word of remonstrance from Mr. Lorry; his boot was still upon the hot embers of the flaming log, when it had broken under the weight of his foot.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX. The Game Made