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1 He was a strongly made man with dark curling hair, from forty-five to fifty years of age.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III. The Shadow
2 Looked out upon a throng of men and women: not enough in number, or near enough, to fill the courtyard: not more than forty or fifty in all.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
3 The mender of roads, and two hundred and fifty particular friends, stood with folded arms at the fountain, looking at the pillar of fire in the sky.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
4 Already, the mender of roads had penetrated into the midst of a group of fifty particular friends, and was smiting himself in the breast with his blue cap.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
5 The mender of roads, and the two hundred and fifty particular friends, inspired as one man and woman by the idea of lighting up, had darted into their houses, and were putting candles in every dull little pane of glass.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
6 If a picture of the chateau as it was to be a very few years hence, and of fifty like it as they too were to be a very few years hence, could have been shown to him that night, he might have been at a loss to claim his own from the ghastly, fire-charred, plunder-wrecked rains.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
7 Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period