Dickens,
Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1999. Print.
1) “In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and
protection to justify much national boasting” (2).
2) “Thus did the year one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small creatures – the
creatures of this chronicle among the rest – along the roads that lay before
them” (3).
3) “The Dover road lay, as to him,
beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up
Shooter’s Hill” (3).
4) “There was a steaming mist in all
the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness
up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none” (4).
5) “The last burst carried the mail to summit of the hill” (5).
6) “Completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait, Mr.Lorry
dropped off to sleep” (13).
7) “It thundered at the town, and
thundered at the cliffs, and brought
the coast down, madly” (13).
8) “A bottle of good claret after
dinner does a digger in the red
coals no harm, otherwise than as it has a tendency to throw him out of work” (14).
9) “As if they had any help for anybody
in their absurd baskets” (15).
10) “After a pause, he added, again
settling the crisp flaxen wig at the
ears” (15).
11) “Mr.Lorry took the hesitating little hand that confidingly
advanced to take his, and he put it with some ceremony to his lips” (17).
12) “As he said the words he looked
down, with an admiring pity, on the
flowing golden hair” (18).
13) “So close was her hold upon his arm,
that he feared to detach himself lest
he should hurt her” (19).
14) “The hands of the man who sawed the
wood, left red marks on the billets”
(21).
15) “Hunger was repeated in every
fragment of the small modicum of
firewood that the man sawed off” (22).
16) “Nothing was represented in a flourishing condition, save tools and
weapons” (23).
17) “Good-humoured-looking on the whole,
but implacable-looking, too” (24).
18) “The immortal creature that was to be so shamefully mangled, was the sight”
(46).
19) “That was merely a coincidences” (51).
20) “There was such commiseration for her as she was removed, and much sympathy with
her father” (57).
21) “Only his daughter had the power of
charming this black brooding from
his mind” (60).
22) “Carton flung his glass over his shoulder against the wall, where it
shivered to pieces” (63).
23) “A quainter corner than the corner where the Doctor lived, was not to
be found in London” (69).
24) “I will not say with me, though he
had business relations with me many with me many years ago, and we are now intimate” (73).
25) “But, no Hundreds of people came to
see the sights, and Mr.Lorry looked in vain for the fulfilment of Miss Pross’s prediction” (75).
26) “The night was so sultry, that although they sat with
doors and windows open, they were overpowered by heat” (77).
27) “The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved” (82).
28) “The nose, beautifully formed
otherwise, was very slightly pinched at the top of each nostril” (83).
29) “Why does he make that abominable noise?” (84).
30) “A round room, in one of the
chateau’s four extinguisher-topped
towers” (91).
31) “I will say with the fair daughter
to whom he is so devotedly attached,
and who is so devotedly attached to
him?” (73).
32) “Touch that string, and he instantly changes for the worse” (74).
33) “She had installed herself, some time before, as Mr.Lorry’s cup bearer”
(75).
34) “A multitude of people, and yet a solitude” (77).
35) “I ask no questions and make no stipulations” (78).
36) “The Marquis took a gentle little
pinch of snuff, and shook his head”
(93).
37) “It was Stryver’s grand peculiarity that he always seemed too
big for any place, or place” (109).
38) “Be under no apprehension, Miss Manette, of my ever resuming this conversation
by so much as a passing word” (116).
39) “The young gentlemen uttered this exultant sound with mysterious
significance” (118).
40) “If, as a honest tradesman, my wenturs goes wrong to-night” (121).
41) “Your fishing-rod gets rather rusty” (121).
42) “As they descend the hill like madmen running a race, he falls” (129).
43) “The phantom that my mind pursued, was another and more real child”
(146).
44) “But, in the composure of his manner was unaltered” (149).
45) “It was not for his friend to abate that confidence” (157).
46) “Here and there, especially at
first, the inundation started on
them and swept by” (168).
47) “There was a heavy lumbering of wheels within hearing”
(217).
48) “At every vote, the populace set up a shout of applause”
(221).
49) “Sheep was a cant word of the time
for a spy” (230).
50) “But, it beckoned him back in his sleep, and showed itself in shinning forms”
(270).
