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1 He obeyed, in the old mechanically submissive manner, without pausing in his work.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII. Nine Days
2 To fail in submission to the authority of the Tribunal would be to put yourself out of Law.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX. The Game Made
3 The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
4 The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
5 The wood-sawyer, who held her in the respect, and himself in the submission, of mortal fear, advanced with his hand to his red cap.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV. The Knitting Done
6 Pride, contempt, defiance, stubbornness, submission, lamentation, succeeded one another; so did varieties of sunken cheek, cadaverous colour, emaciated hands and figures.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows
7 In the submissive way of one long accustomed to obey under coercion, he ate and drank what they gave him to eat and drink, and put on the cloak and other wrappings, that they gave him to wear.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
8 Monsieur the Marquis cast his eyes over the submissive faces that drooped before him, as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court--only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate--when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
9 The general scarcity of everything, occasioned candles to be borrowed in a rather peremptory manner of Monsieur Gabelle; and in a moment of reluctance and hesitation on that functionary's part, the mender of roads, once so submissive to authority, had remarked that carriages were good to make bonfires with, and that post-horses would roast.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises