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1  So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
2  Madame Defarge sat observing it, with such suppressed approval as was to be desired in the leader of the Saint Antoine women.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII. The Sea Still Rises
3  Yet, a doubt lurks in my mind, Miss Pross, whether it is good for Doctor Manette to have that suppression always shut up within him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
4  He greatly disturbed that poor woman at intervals, by darting out of his sleeping closet, where he made his toilet, with a suppressed cry of "You are going to flop, mother."
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
5  Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
6  A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
7  The necessity of being angry in a suppressed tone had put Mr. Stryver's blood-vessels into a dangerous state when it was his turn to be angry; Mr. Lorry's veins, methodical as their courses could usually be, were in no better state now it was his turn.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy