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1  Miss Manette, I am a man of business.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
2  It's hard in the law to spile a man, I think.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight
3  "You work hard, madame," said a man near her.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
4  You are a man of business and bound to have a reason.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
5  He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
6  Completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait, Mr. Lorry dropped off to sleep.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
7  He was a man of about sixty, handsomely dressed, haughty in manner, and with a face like a fine mask.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
8  As a man of business, I am not justified in saying anything about this matter, for, as a man of business, I know nothing of it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
9  With the aid of his indispensable cap, he represented a man with his elbows bound fast at his hips, with cords that were knotted behind him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
10  She will have in me a man already pretty well off, and a rapidly rising man, and a man of some distinction: it is a piece of good fortune for her, but she is worthy of good fortune.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture
11  So cowed was their condition, and so long and hard their experience of what such a man could do to them, within the law and beyond it, that not a voice, or a hand, or even an eye was raised.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
12  Defarge refreshed himself with a draught of wine--but, he took less than was given to the stranger, as being himself a man to whom it was no rarity--and stood waiting until the countryman had made his breakfast.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
13  Now, from the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way--Charles Darnay's way--the way of the love of a woman.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
14  Good-humoured looking on the whole, but implacable-looking, too; evidently a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
15  Making his way through the tainted crowd, dispersed up and down this hideous scene of action, with the skill of a man accustomed to make his way quietly, the messenger found out the door he sought, and handed in his letter through a trap in it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight
16  The spectators saw in the two figures, a young lady of little more than twenty, and a gentleman who was evidently her father; a man of a very remarkable appearance in respect of the absolute whiteness of his hair, and a certain indescribable intensity of face: not of an active kind, but pondering and self-communing.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight
17  Now, which of the multitude of faces that showed themselves before him was the true face of the buried person, the shadows of the night did not indicate; but they were all the faces of a man of five-and-forty by years, and they differed principally in the passions they expressed, and in the ghastliness of their worn and wasted state.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows
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