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1  I have been a Bastille prisoner.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
2  It may have been a signal for loosening the general tongue.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV. Knitting
3  I have been a man of business, ever since I have been a man.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX. The Game Made
4  "You have been a long time coming," said the Marquis, with a smile.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
5  In another place, lay an old sword that seemed to have been a soldier's.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
6  In this age, he would have been a Professor; in that age, he was a Tutor.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X. Two Promises
7  There ought to have been a tranquil bark in such an anchorage, and there was.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI. Hundreds of People
8  If you had been a fellow of any sensitiveness or delicacy of feeling in that kind of way, Sydney, I might have been a little resentful of your employing such a designation; but you are not.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture
9  A man, so besmeared that he might have been a sorely wounded soldier creeping back to consciousness on a field of slain, was rising from the pavement by the side of the grindstone, and looking about him with a vacant air.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
10  There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
11  In an unselfish aspect, I am sorry that the thing is dropped, because it would have been a bad thing for me in a worldly point of view; in a selfish aspect, I am glad that the thing has dropped, because it would have been a bad thing for me in a worldly point of view--it is hardly necessary to say I could have gained nothing by it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. The Fellow of Delicacy