IT WAS in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:

Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - it was in A Tale of Two Cities
1  Our booked passenger showed in a moment that it was his name.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II. The Mail
2  Sometimes it was staring and bewildered, and then it was, "I don't know her."
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows
3  Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
4  The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
5  In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period
6  Small tradesmen, who did no business whatever, sometimes unaccountably realised large fortunes, and it was remarkable that nobody in the neighbourhood could endure a lamplighter.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
7  When it was dark, and he sat before the coffee-room fire, awaiting his dinner as he had awaited his breakfast, his mind was busily digging, digging, digging, in the live red coals.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
8  Such a staircase, with its accessories, in the older and more crowded parts of Paris, would be bad enough now; but, at that time, it was vile indeed to unaccustomed and unhardened senses.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
9  With that advice, he wiped his soiled hand upon the joker's dress, such as it was--quite deliberately, as having dirtied the hand on his account; and then recrossed the road and entered the wine-shop.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
10  As to the latter, when every posting-house and ale-house could produce somebody in "the Captain's" pay, ranging from the landlord to the lowest stable non-descript, it was the likeliest thing upon the cards.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II. The Mail
11  This wine-shop keeper was a bull-necked, martial-looking man of thirty, and he should have been of a hot temperament, for, although it was a bitter day, he wore no coat, but carried one slung over his shoulder.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
12  The young forehead lifted itself into that singular expression--but it was pretty and characteristic, besides being singular--and she raised her hand, as if with an involuntary action she caught at, or stayed some passing shadow.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
13  But this is my father's story, sir; and I begin to think"--the curiously roughened forehead was very intent upon him--"that when I was left an orphan through my mother's surviving my father only two years, it was you who brought me to England.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
14  Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything; and long habit alone could have slowly formed in any one, the ability to do any work requiring nicety in such obscurity.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
15  Between the eyebrows and just over the little feminine nose, the line of which was as delicate and fine as it was possible to be, the expression deepened itself as she took her seat thoughtfully in the chair by which she had hitherto remained standing.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
16  And now that the cloud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy--cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly presence--nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
17  I replied to the Bank, sir, that as it was considered necessary, by those who know, and who are so kind as to advise me, that I should go to France, and that as I am an orphan and have no friend who could go with me, I should esteem it highly if I might be permitted to place myself, during the journey, under that worthy gentleman's protection.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.