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1  The barrier was closed and strongly guarded when they rode up to it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
2  My old pain has given me a power that has brought us through the barrier, and gained us news of Charles there, and brought us here.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
3  There was the usual stoppage at the barrier guardhouse, and the usual lanterns came glancing forth for the usual examination and inquiry.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
4  When he had sat in his saddle some half-hour, taking note of these things, Darnay found himself confronted by the same man in authority, who directed the guard to open the barrier.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
5  Not a mean village closed upon him, not a common barrier dropped across the road behind him, but he knew it to be another iron door in the series that was barred between him and England.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
6  A numerous medley of men and women, not to mention beasts and vehicles of various sorts, was waiting to issue forth; but, the previous identification was so strict, that they filtered through the barrier very slowly.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
7  The rats had crept out of their holes to look on, and they remained looking on for hours; soldiers and police often passing between them and the spectacle, and making a barrier behind which they slunk, and through which they peeped.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
8  Having said it, he passed behind the little counter, and stood with his hand on the back of his wife's chair, looking over that barrier at the person to whom they were both opposed, and whom either of them would have shot with the greatest satisfaction.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting