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1  You summon no energy and purpose.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal
2  With no more definite purpose than to escape the hazard of originating any other kind of action.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II. The Mail
3  Greater things than the Doctor had at that time to contend with, would have yielded before his persevering purpose.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm
4  He was now a very energetic man indeed, with great firmness of purpose, strength of resolution, and vigour of action.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
5  And it was from the gifts bestowed upon him towards the execution of this benevolent purpose, that he recruited his finances, as just now observed.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
6  An incidental allusion, purposely thrown out, to the day of the week, and the day of the month, set him thinking and counting, and evidently made him uneasy.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX. An Opinion
7  Quickly, but with hands as true to the purpose as his heart was, Carton dressed himself in the clothes the prisoner had laid aside, combed back his hair, and tied it with the ribbon the prisoner had worn.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII. Fifty-two
8  The people in possession of the house had let them in at the gate, and they had rushed in to work at the grindstone; it had evidently been set up there for their purpose, as in a convenient and retired spot.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
9  Accordingly, when Mr. Lorry called that night as late as ten o'clock, Mr. Stryver, among a quantity of books and papers littered out for the purpose, seemed to have nothing less on his mind than the subject of the morning.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
10  Good-humoured looking on the whole, but implacable-looking, too; evidently a man of a strong resolution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
11  Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason; and the team had capitulated and returned to their duty.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II. The Mail
12  Whether his meditations on mortality had touched his liver, or whether his general health had been previously at all amiss, or whether he desired to show a little attention to an eminent man, is not so much to the purpose, as that he made a short call upon his medical adviser--a distinguished surgeon--on his way back.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
13  Miss Pross recalled soon afterwards, and to the end of her life remembered, that as she pressed her hands on Sydney's arm and looked up in his face, imploring him to do no hurt to Solomon, there was a braced purpose in the arm and a kind of inspiration in the eyes, which not only contradicted his light manner, but changed and raised the man.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII. A Hand at Cards