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1  By-and-bye, they went into the house.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. One Night
2  If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the house of Doctor Manette.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy
3  But, Miss Pross suddenly became afflicted with a twitching in the head and body, and retired into the house.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
4  When I was clear of the house, a black muffler was drawn tightly over my mouth from behind, and my arms were pinioned.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
5  A faint murmur arose about the house from the few people who were left there, and there was a saddling of a horse and riding away.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
6  He was in no uneasiness concerning his getting into the house again, for it was full of lodgers, and the door stood ajar all night.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
7  When he got out of the house, the air was cold and sad, the dull sky overcast, the river dark and dim, the whole scene like a lifeless desert.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V. The Jackal
8  His hair could not have been more violently on end, if it had been that moment dressed by the Cow with the crumpled horn in the house that Jack built.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII. A Hand at Cards
9  Outside Tellson's--never by any means in it, unless called in--was an odd-job-man, an occasional porter and messenger, who served as the live sign of the house.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
10  On the night of the day on which he left the house, Mr. Lorry went into his room with a chopper, saw, chisel, and hammer, attended by Miss Pross carrying a light.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX. An Opinion
11  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
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
12  He walked on the other side of it and protected it to the courtyard of the house where the afflicted heart--so happy in the memorable time when he had revealed his own desolate heart to it--outwatched the awful night.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII. Darkness
13  These, however, were only the exceptions required to prove the rule that the sparrows in the plane-tree behind the house, and the echoes in the corner before it, had their own way from Sunday morning unto Saturday night.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
14  At two-thirds of a league from the Barrier--I did not estimate the distance at that time, but afterwards when I traversed it--it struck out of the main avenue, and presently stopped at a solitary house, We all three alighted, and walked, by a damp soft footpath in a garden where a neglected fountain had overflowed, to the door of the house.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
15  But, he said not a single word in reference to the discovery that had been told of, and, as they went into the house, the business eye of Mr. Lorry either detected, or fancied it detected, on his face, as it turned towards Charles Darnay, the same singular look that had been upon it when it turned towards him in the passages of the Court House.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People