1 The eye could not detect one creature in the group free from the smear of blood.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone 2 The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town 3 Every living creature there held life as of no account, and was demented with a passionate readiness to sacrifice it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps 4 Better to be a rational creature," he added then, after ringing a small bell on the table, "and accept your natural destiny.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head 5 A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows 6 Even in my father's time, we did a world of wrong, injuring every human creature who came between us and our pleasure, whatever it was.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head 7 Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. Triumph 8 All this was seen in a moment, as the vision of a drowning man, or of any human creature at any very great pass, could see a world if it were there.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone 9 I don't care about fortune: she is a charming creature, and I have made up my mind to please myself: on the whole, I think I can afford to please myself.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture 10 The form that was to be doomed to be so shamefully mangled, was the sight; the immortal creature that was to be so butchered and torn asunder, yielded the sensation.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight 11 After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig--now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands--to dig this wretched creature out.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows 12 Indeed, except for the mere act of bringing a troublesome creature into this world--which does not go far towards the realisation of the name of mother--there was no such thing known to the fashion.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town 13 On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless bundle, and moving gently about it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town 14 So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker 15 The speaker seemed to acknowledge that it was inconvenient to have that different order of creature dying there, and that it would have been better if he had died in the usual obscure routine of his vermin kind.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow 16 And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting 17 If it had been possible, Miss Manette, that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself--flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misuse as you know him to be--he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you to misery, bring you to sorrow and repentance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles DickensContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.