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1  He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII. Darkness
2  Only his daughter had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV. Congratulatory
3  But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a tigress.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV. The Knitting Done
4  He had shown strong internal agitation when he was questioned, and that pondering or brooding look which made him old, had been upon him, like a heavy cloud, ever since.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
5  Among these terrors, and the brood belonging to them, the Doctor walked with a steady head: confident in his power, cautiously persistent in his end, never doubting that he would save Lucie's husband at last.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm
6  There had been more of early brooding than drinking; for, many men had listened and whispered and slunk about there from the time of the opening of the door, who could not have laid a piece of money on the counter to save their souls.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
7  A narrow winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
8  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