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1  Dead as mutton," returned the other, "and can't be too dead.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
2  If I were dead, that could not be surer than it is henceforth.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
3  Dead darkness lay on all the landscape, dead darkness added its own hush to the hushing dust on all the roads.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
4  Other seven faces there were, carried higher, seven dead faces, whose drooping eyelids and half-seen eyes awaited the Last Day.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
5  Twenty-two friends of high public mark, twenty-one living and one dead, it had lopped the heads off, in one morning, in as many minutes.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm
6  Sometimes, he gets up in the dead of the night, and will be heard, by us overhead there, walking up and down, walking up and down, in his room.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
7  All this time it was incessantly hopping on behind and gaining on him, so that when the boy got to his own door he had reason for being half dead.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
8  Otherwise, the place will be quickly forgotten, it will never be found when I am dead of the same malady, I shall be laid under some other heap of poor grass.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
9  Haunted in a most ghastly manner that abominable place would have been, if the glass could ever have rendered back its reflections, as the ocean is one day to give up its dead.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight
10  The day was very hot, and heaps of flies, who were extending their inquisitive and adventurous perquisitions into all the glutinous little glasses near madame, fell dead at the bottom.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
11  And even then it would not leave him, but followed him upstairs with a bump on every stair, scrambled into bed with him, and bumped down, dead and heavy, on his breast when he fell asleep.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
12  So strangely clouded were these refinements by the prison manners and gloom, so spectral did they become in the inappropriate squalor and misery through which they were seen, that Charles Darnay seemed to stand in a company of the dead.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
13  My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows
14  That head Mr. Attorney-General concluded by demanding of them, in the name of everything he could think of with a round turn in it, and on the faith of his solemn asseveration that he already considered the prisoner as good as dead and gone.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
15  After long and lonely spurring over dreary roads, they would come to a cluster of poor cottages, not steeped in darkness, but all glittering with lights, and would find the people, in a ghostly manner in the dead of the night, circling hand in hand round a shrivelled tree of Liberty, or all drawn up together singing a Liberty song.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
16  Such ample leisure had the stone faces, now, for listening to the trees and to the fountain, that the few village scarecrows who, in their quest for herbs to eat and fragments of dead stick to burn, strayed within sight of the great stone courtyard and terrace staircase, had it borne in upon their starved fancy that the expression of the faces was altered.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
17  Seven prisoners released, seven gory heads on pikes, the keys of the accursed fortress of the eight strong towers, some discovered letters and other memorials of prisoners of old time, long dead of broken hearts,--such, and such--like, the loudly echoing footsteps of Saint Antoine escort through the Paris streets in mid-July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
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