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1  It has died in a moment without pain.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
2  His cry was so like a cry of actual pain, that it rang in Charles Darnay's ears long after he had ceased.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
3  It is a painful reflection to me," said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, "that I should have done him any wrong.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX. A Plea
4  My old pain has given me a power that has brought us through the barrier, and gained us news of Charles there, and brought us here.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
5  The expression in the forehead, which had so particularly attracted his notice, and which was now immovable, had deepened into one of pain and horror.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
6  Her forehead was painfully anxious and intent as she gave this evidence, and, in the pauses when she stopped for the Judge to write it down, watched its effect upon the counsel for and against.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment
7  How much of the incompleteness of his situation was referable to her father, through the painful anxiety to avoid reviving old associations of France in his mind, he did not discuss with himself.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
8  Lucie should be spared the pain of separation; and her father, always reluctant to turn his thoughts towards the dangerous ground of old, should come to the knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
9  Notwithstanding Miss Pross's denial of her own imagination, there was a perception of the pain of being monotonously haunted by one sad idea, in her repetition of the phrase, walking up and down, which testified to her possessing such a thing.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
10  A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by, some pains to drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
11  Well, Mr. Stryver, I was about to say:--it might be painful to you to find yourself mistaken, it might be painful to Doctor Manette to have the task of being explicit with you, it might be very painful to Miss Manette to have the task of being explicit with you.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
12  A rumour just lived in the village--had a faint and bare existence there, as its people had--that when the knife struck home, the faces changed, from faces of pride to faces of anger and pain; also, that when that dangling figure was hauled up forty feet above the fountain, they changed again, and bore a cruel look of being avenged, which they would henceforth bear for ever.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting