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1 Hold of it was lost in the raging fever of a nation, as it is in the fever of one patient.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm
2 He and his books were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V. The Wood-Sawyer
3 In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period
4 The shining Bull's Eye of the Court was gone, or it would have been the mark for a hurricane of national bullets.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
5 The narrative called up the most revengeful passions of the time, and there was not a head in the nation but must have dropped before it.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
6 The escort were two mounted patriots in red caps and tri-coloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, who rode one on either side of him.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
7 So quick was the Tribunal to compensate itself and the nation for a chance lost, that these five came down to him before he left the place, condemned to die within twenty-four hours.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. Triumph
8 The question was addressed to the wood-sawyer, who hurriedly replied in the affirmative: seizing the occasion to add that he was the most ardent of Republicans, and that he would be in effect the most desolate of Republicans, if anything prevented him from enjoying the pleasure of smoking his afternoon pipe in the contemplation of the droll national barber.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV. The Knitting Done
9 How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment