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1  He had been known in England as Charles Darnay.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
2  It was known directly, to the furthest confines of the crowd.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII. The Sea Still Rises
3  No, Miss Manette; all through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
4  He had known the last witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
5  We have been so full of business all day, that we have not known what to do first, or which way to turn.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
6  Nobody had made any acknowledgment of Mr. Carton's part in the day's proceedings; nobody had known of it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV. Congratulatory
7  I had not known how to do it well, not understanding how the wind would set when we were out of the harbour.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
8  On this post of his, Mr. Cruncher was as well known to Fleet-street and the Temple, as the Bar itself,--and was almost as in-looking.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
9  Wretched old sinner of more than threescore years and ten, if he had never known it yet, he would have known it in his heart of hearts if he could have heard the answering cry.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII. The Sea Still Rises
10  The few words that he caught from this man's lips, first made it known to Charles Darnay that the king was in prison, and that the foreign ambassadors had one and all left Paris.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
11  Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
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 Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
13  Of late, the neglected bed in the Temple Court had known him more scantily than ever; and often when he had thrown himself upon it no longer than a few minutes, he had got up again, and haunted that neighbourhood.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
14  Although the Doctor's daughter had known nothing of the country of her birth, she appeared to have innately derived from it that ability to make much of little means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable characteristics.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
15  As a tutor, whose attainments made the student's way unusually pleasant and profitable, and as an elegant translator who brought something to his work besides mere dictionary knowledge, young Mr. Darnay soon became known and encouraged.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
16  Exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding, which was at that remarkable time--and has been since--to be known by its fruits of indifference to every natural subject of human interest, were in the most exemplary state of exhaustion, at the hotel of Monseigneur.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
17  For such variety of reasons, Tellson's was at that time, as to French intelligence, a kind of High Exchange; and this was so well known to the public, and the inquiries made there were in consequence so numerous, that Tellson's sometimes wrote the latest news out in a line or so and posted it in the Bank windows, for all who ran through Temple Bar to read.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
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