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1 "It is true," said Defarge, who was kneeling to look on and hear.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
2 To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII. Monseigneur in the Country
3 I could not see where his wound was, as I kneeled on one knee over him; but, I could see that he was dying of a wound from a sharp point.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
4 In the church and at the Cross, a kneeling figure or two; attendant on the latter prayers, the led cow, trying for a breakfast among the weeds at its foot.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
5 Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
6 The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed to fall so threatening and dark on the child, that her mother instinctively kneeled on the ground beside her, and held her to her breast.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III. The Shadow
7 Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
A Tale of Two CitiesBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. The Period