Awesome Words

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).