1 Mr. Stryver is here too, occasionally.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises 2 "Now you know all about it, Syd," said Mr. Stryver.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture 3 Mr. Stryver laughed till he shook his precocious paunch.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal 4 "And now we have done, Sydney, fill a bumper of punch," said Mr. Stryver.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal 5 Mr. Stryver had left them in the passages, to shoulder his way back to the robing-room.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV. Congratulatory 6 "Not much boiling down to be done to-night, Memory," said Mr. Stryver, gaily, as he looked among his papers.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal 7 Mr. Darnay had kissed her hand fervently and gratefully, and had turned to Mr. Stryver, whom he warmly thanked.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV. Congratulatory 8 A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal 9 Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy 10 Sydney had been working double tides that night, and the night before, and the night before that, and a good many nights in succession, making a grand clearance among Mr. Stryver's papers before the setting in of the long vacation.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture 11 It had once been noted at the Bar, that while Mr. Stryver was a glib man, and an unscrupulous, and a ready, and a bold, he had not that faculty of extracting the essence from a heap of statements, which is among the most striking and necessary of the advocate's accomplishments.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal 12 Now, don't let my announcement of the name make you uncomfortable, Sydney," said Mr. Stryver, preparing him with ostentatious friendliness for the disclosure he was about to make, "because I know you don't mean half you say; and if you meant it all, it would be of no importance.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture 13 The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal 14 Mr. Stryver then called his few witnesses, and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney-General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury, inside out; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred times better than he had thought them, and the prisoner a hundred times worse.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment 15 He had now to attend while Mr. Stryver fitted the prisoner's case on the jury, like a compact suit of clothes; showing them how the patriot, Barsad, was a hired spy and traitor, an unblushing trafficker in blood, and one of the greatest scoundrels upon earth since accursed Judas--which he certainly did look rather like.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment 16 From the dimly-lighted passages of the court, the last sediment of the human stew that had been boiling there all day, was straining off, when Doctor Manette, Lucie Manette, his daughter, Mr. Lorry, the solicitor for the defence, and its counsel, Mr. Stryver, stood gathered round Mr. Charles Darnay--just released--congratulating him on his escape from death.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV. Congratulatory 17 Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favourite, specially, to their longing arms; and shouldering itself towards the visage of the Lord Chief Justice in the Court of King's Bench, the florid countenance of Mr. Stryver might be daily seen, bursting out of the bed of wigs, like a great sunflower pushing its way at the sun from among a rank garden-full of flaring companions.
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