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1  They fished with a spade, at first.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
2  I'm a going--as your mother knows--a fishing.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
3  There was no fish for breakfast, and not much of anything else.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
4  They were still fishing perseveringly, when he peeped in at the gate for the second time; but, now they seemed to have got a bite.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
5  In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period
6  A little fishing was done in the port, and a quantity of strolling about by night, and looking seaward: particularly at those times when the tide made, and was near flood.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
7  The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
8  Towards that small and ghostly hour, he rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman