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1  But the question, Doctor Manette.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII. A Knock at the Door
2  But it is useless to discuss the question.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. The Gorgon's Head
3  I quite understand it to be a nice question.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX. An Opinion
4  He asked the question with some appearance of scorn.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI. A Companion Picture
5  The answers to this question were various and contradictory.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III. The Night Shadows
6  I had considered the question, and had resolved to accept nothing.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
7  But, the question reminded him of his work, and he bent over it again.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
8  This being another question hard to answer, Mr. Jarvis Lorry withdrew to consider it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. The Preparation
9  But, before she could repeat the question, he murmured an answer as if she had repeated it.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
10  Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellson's.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I. Five Years Later
11  I had no opportunity of asking her any question, until I had told the brothers she was sinking fast, and could not live another day.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X. The Substance of the Shadow
12  He was not suspected or brought in question, any more than if he had indeed been recalled to life some eighteen years before, or were a Spirit moving among mortals.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV. Calm in Storm
13  When he came back, he ascended the old staircase alone, having asked no question of the servant; going thus into the Doctor's rooms, he was stopped by a low sound of knocking.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII. Nine Days
14  His haggard eyes turned to Defarge as if he would have transferred the question to him: but as no help came from that quarter, they turned back on the questioner when they had sought the ground.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI. The Shoemaker
15  My brave wife," returned Defarge, standing before her with his head a little bent, and his hands clasped at his back, like a docile and attentive pupil before his catechist, "I do not question all this.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI. Still Knitting
16  A mere beast of the chase flying from hunters, he was still in his metempsychosis no other than the same Monseigneur, the preparation of whose chocolate for whose lips had once occupied three strong men besides the cook in question.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. The Grindstone
17  The keeper of the wine-shop, always going a little in advance, and always going on the side which Mr. Lorry took, as though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady, turned himself about here, and, carefully feeling in the pockets of the coat he carried over his shoulder, took out a key.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V. The Wine-shop
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