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1 It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
2 It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
3 Thank God," said Mr. Lorry, clasping his hands, "that no one near and dear to me is in this dreadful town to-night.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
4 They rested on some straw in a loft until the middle of the night, and then rode forward again when all the town was asleep.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
5 The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
6 He had been days upon his journey in France alone, when he went to bed tired out, in a little town on the high road, still a long way from Paris.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
7 Fortified towns with their stockades, guard-houses, gates, trenches, and drawbridges, seemed to the mender of roads, to be so much air as against this figure.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
8 In this state they set forth with the sharp rain driving in their faces: clattering at a heavy dragoon trot over the uneven town pavement, and out upon the mire-deep roads.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
9 Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
10 But when they came to the town of Beauvais--which they did at eventide, when the streets were filled with people--he could not conceal from himself that the aspect of affairs was very alarming.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret