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1 Some of us have damp ways, and some of us have dry ways.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II. A Sight
2 Yes, yes, yes," returned Mr. Lorry, drying his eyes, "you are right.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI. Dusk
3 Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder; Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
4 Molten lead and iron boiled in the marble basin of the fountain; the water ran dry; the extinguisher tops of the towers vanished like ice before the heat, and trickled down into four rugged wells of flame.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
5 Whatever housekeeping arrangement that may be," said Miss Pross, striving to dry her eyes and compose herself, "I have no doubt it is best that Mrs. Cruncher should have it entirely under her own superintendence.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV. The Knitting Done
6 With his straw in his mouth, Mr. Cruncher sat watching the two streams, like the heathen rustic who has for several centuries been on duty watching one stream--saving that Jerry had no expectation of their ever running dry.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
7 Through gloomy vaults where the light of day had never shone, past hideous doors of dark dens and cages, down cavernous flights of steps, and again up steep rugged ascents of stone and brick, more like dry waterfalls than staircases, Defarge, the turnkey, and Jacques Three, linked hand and arm, went with all the speed they could make.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps