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1 It was hard by the fountain, and the peasants suspended their operations to look at him.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
2Peasant women kept the unfashionable babies close, and brought them up, and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
3 On some hay on the ground, with a cushion thrown under his head, lay a handsome peasant boy--a boy of not more than seventeen at the most.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
4 The two opposing kinds of pride confronting one another, I can see, even in this Bastille; the gentleman's, all negligent indifference; the peasant's, all trodden-down sentiment, and passionate revenge.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
5 The great door clanged behind him, and Monsieur the Marquis crossed a hall grim with certain old boar-spears, swords, and knives of the chase; grimmer with certain heavy riding-rods and riding-whips, of which many a peasant, gone to his benefactor Death, had felt the weight when his lord was angry.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
6 Lovely girls; bright women, brown-haired, black-haired, and grey; youths; stalwart men and old; gentle born and peasant born; all red wine for La Guillotine, all daily brought into light from the dark cellars of the loathsome prisons, and carried to her through the streets to slake her devouring thirst.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V. The Wood-Sawyer
7 Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants' carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest people, was very difficult.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret