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1  The fingers of the knitting women were vicious, with the experience that they could tear.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXII. The Sea Still Rises
2  Never mind your having no enjoyment of women's society, nor understanding of it, nor tact for it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture
3  Young women have committed similar follies often before, and have repented them in poverty and obscurity often before.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy
4  A shrill sound of laughter and of amused voices--voices of men, women, and children--resounded in the street while this wine game lasted.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
5  Peasant women kept the unfashionable babies close, and brought them up, and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
6  Jacques Three was nearly at his side; Madame Defarge, still heading some of her women, was visible in the inner distance, and her knife was in her hand.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI. Echoing Footsteps
7  And as Madame Defarge moved on from group to group, all three went quicker and fiercer among every little knot of women that she had spoken with, and left behind.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
8  Darkness closed around, and then came the ringing of church bells and the distant beating of the military drums in the Palace Courtyard, as the women sat knitting, knitting.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
9  On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly--a dejected disposition to give up, and wither away.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
10  Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
11  On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying, and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless bundle, and moving gently about it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
12  So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
13  Some, to the fountain; some, to the fields; men and women here, to dig and delve; men and women there, to see to the poor live stock, and lead the bony cows out, to such pasture as could be found by the roadside.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
14  As to the men and women, their choice on earth was stated in the prospect--Life on the lowest terms that could sustain it, down in the little village under the mill; or captivity and Death in the dominant prison on the crag.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
15  With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
16  The father had long ago taken up his bundle and bidden himself away with it, when the women who had tended the bundle while it lay on the base of the fountain, sat there watching the running of the water and the rolling of the Fancy Ball--when the one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
17  It fell out that he was thus engaged in a season when crowds were few, and belated women few, and when his affairs in general were so unprosperous as to awaken a strong suspicion in his breast that Mrs. Cruncher must have been "flopping" in some pointed manner, when an unusual concourse pouring down Fleet-street westward, attracted his attention.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV. The Honest Tradesman
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