1 Dream or reality, he had no voice, nor had he power to stir.
2 My dearest Louisa, I cannot go myself, or let you go, in this hard abuse of your power.
3 I am quite sure that it is the only compensation you have left it in your power to make.
4 A moment and she would be past all help, let the whole world wake and come about her with its utmost power.
5 Even the power of restlessness was gone, except from the poor head, which could just turn from side to side.
6 Time went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
7 I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.
8 I can only suppose that the circumstances of your early life were too unfavourable to the development of your reasoning powers, and that we began too late.
9 He really liked Sissy too well to have a contempt for her; otherwise he held her calculating powers in such very slight estimation that he must have fallen upon that conclusion.
10 Then Slackbridge, who had kept his oratorical arm extended during the going out, as if he were repressing with infinite solicitude and by a wonderful moral power the vehement passions of the multitude, applied himself to raising their spirits.
11 As these were made, they were hung upon an arm of the pitman who had last come up, with instructions how to use them: and as he stood, shown by the light he carried, leaning his powerful loose hand upon one of the poles, and sometimes glancing down the pit, and sometimes glancing round upon the people, he was not the least conspicuous figure in the scene.