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1  Touch that string, and he instantly changes for the worse.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
2  It would be worse than useless now to make any inquiries, because it would be dangerous.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
3  The spare hand does not tremble as he releases it; nothing worse than a sweet, bright constancy is in the patient face.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
4  He was not long in discovering that it was worse than useless to speak to him, since, on being pressed, he became worried.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII. Nine Days
5  To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
6  And all the worse for the doomed man, that the denouncer was a well-known citizen, his own attached friend, the father of his wife.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
7  To propose too much, would be to put this man's head under the axe, and, as he himself said, nothing worse could happen to him if he were denounced.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX. The Game Made
8  It would be worse than useless now to inquire which; worse than useless to seek to know whether he has been for years overlooked, or always designedly held prisoner.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
9  Mr. Stryver then called his few witnesses, and Mr. Cruncher had next to attend while Mr. Attorney-General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury, inside out; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred times better than he had thought them, and the prisoner a hundred times worse.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III. A Disappointment