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1  I am that child, I hope, my father.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night
2  My child, you did see him, and it is Charles.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night
3  Let me finish my pipe, and I shall sleep like a child.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
4  He is a good child, this mender of roads, called Jacques.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
5  The phantom that my mind pursued, was another and more real child.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night
6  She held him closer round the neck, and rocked him on her breast like a child.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
7  I have looked at her, speculating thousands of times upon the unborn child from whom I had been rent.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night
8  If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to 'em.'
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
9  Miss Pross had laid the child down on his own bed, and her head had gradually fallen on the pillow beside her pretty charge.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
10  In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
11  How near to her heart the echoes of her child's tread came, and those of her own dear father's, always active and self-possessed, and those of her dear husband's, need not be told.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
12  Of unjust treatment in detention and hardship, and in cruel separation from his wife and child, he foreshadowed the likelihood, or the certainty; but, beyond this, he dreaded nothing distinctly.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
13  He found her child and Miss Pross with her; but, it never occurred to him to be surprised by their appearance until a long time afterwards, when he sat watching them in such quiet as the night knew.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
14  His own possessions, safety, life, he would have hazarded for Lucie and her child, without a moment's demur; but the great trust he held was not his own, and as to that business charge he was a strict man of business.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III. The Shadow
15  They came, and the shady house was sunny with a child's laugh, and the Divine friend of children, to whom in her trouble she had confided hers, seemed to take her child in his arms, as He took the child of old, and made it a sacred joy to her.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
16  They whisper at the fountain, that although condemned to death he will not be executed; they say that petitions have been presented in Paris, showing that he was enraged and made mad by the death of his child; they say that a petition has been presented to the King himself.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
17  I know," said Darnay, respectfully, "how can I fail to know, Doctor Manette, I who have seen you together from day to day, that between you and Miss Manette there is an affection so unusual, so touching, so belonging to the circumstances in which it has been nurtured, that it can have few parallels, even in the tenderness between a father and child.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
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