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1  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
2  Troubled as the future was, it was the unknown future, and in its obscurity there was ignorant hope.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I. In Secret
3  They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
4  Moreover, it was the spot to which such French intelligence as was most to be relied upon, came quickest.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock
5  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
6  At the gallows and the wheel--the axe was a rarity--Monsieur Paris, as it was the episcopal mode among his brother Professors of the provinces, Monsieur Orleans, and the rest, to call him, presided in this dainty dress.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII. Monseigneur in Town
7  But, it was the old scared lost look that troubled Mr. Lorry; and through his absent manner of clasping his head and drearily wandering away into his own room when they got up-stairs, Mr. Lorry was reminded of Defarge the wine-shop keeper, and the starlight ride.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII. Nine Days
8  It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine, looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm