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1 The man looked at him, looked at the village in the hollow, at the mill, and at the prison on the crag.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
2 The rider from the chateau, and the horse in a foam, clattered away through the village, and galloped up the stony steep, to the prison on the crag.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
3 But it always looks up, from a distance, at the prison on the crag; and in the evening, when the work of the day is achieved and it assembles to gossip at the fountain, all faces are turned towards the prison.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
4 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 CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
5 But, there remained a broken country, bold and open, a little village at the bottom of the hill, a broad sweep and rise beyond it, a church-tower, a windmill, a forest for the chase, and a crag with a fortress on it used as a prison.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
6 The prison on the crag was not so dominant as of yore; there were soldiers to guard it, but not many; there were officers to guard the soldiers, but not one of them knew what his men would do--beyond this: that it would probably not be what he was ordered.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. Fire Rises
7 All the village," pursued the mender of roads, on tiptoe and in a low voice, "withdraws; all the village whispers by the fountain; all the village sleeps; all the village dreams of that unhappy one, within the locks and bars of the prison on the crag, and never to come out of it, except to perish.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting