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1  The latter so received it, and remained silent.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
2  Doctor Manette received him kindly, and so did Lucie.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
3  Madame Defarge received it as a compliment, and looked at her husband.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III. The Shadow
4  Monseigneur received him in a courtly manner, but they did not shake hands.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
5  Take that message back, and they will know that I received this, as well as if I wrote.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II. The Mail
6  Thenceforth, to secure his good will, she always spoke to him first, and often gave him drink-money, which he readily received.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V. The Wood-Sawyer
7  She had never been quite at her ease with him, and received him with some little embarrassment as he seated himself near her table.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
8  It was so much, however, to her who received it, that she turned from Defarge to his wife, and kissed one of the hands that knitted.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III. The Shadow
9  Doctor Manette received such patients here as his old reputation, and its revival in the floating whispers of his story, brought him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
10  The wound was a sword-thrust, received from twenty to twenty-four hours before, but no skill could have saved him if it had been looked to without delay.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
11  He has not received the notice yet, but I know that he will presently be summoned for to-morrow, and removed to the Conciergerie; I have timely information.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V. The Wood-Sawyer
12  As Mr. Lorry received these confidences, and as he watched the face of his friend now sixty-two years of age, a misgiving arose within him that such dread experiences would revive the old danger.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm
13  His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he had received the added appellation of Jerry.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
14  Practical suggestions being much needed, this suggestion, too, was received with acclamation, and the coach was immediately filled with eight inside and a dozen out, while as many people got on the roof of the hearse as could by any exercise of ingenuity stick upon it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
15  The smooth manner of the spy, curiously in dissonance with his ostentatiously rough dress, and probably with his usual demeanour, received such a check from the inscrutability of Carton,--who was a mystery to wiser and honester men than he,--that it faltered here and failed him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII. A Hand at Cards
16  Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period
17  He knew that under the overthrown government he had been a spy upon Saint Antoine and Defarge's wine-shop; had received from the watchful police such heads of information concerning Doctor Manette's imprisonment, release, and history, as should serve him for an introduction to familiar conversation with the Defarges; and tried them on Madame Defarge, and had broken down with them signally.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII. A Hand at Cards
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