A Tale of Two Cities Vocabulary #1

N.: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity..." (5)

N.: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity..." (5)

ADJ. / N.: "...in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only" (5)

N.: "that magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue" (7)

V.: "that magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue" (7)

N.: "that magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor of London, was made to stand and deliver on Turnham Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue" (7)

N. / V.: "In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition..." (7)

V.: "to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence" (7)

V.: "and the team had capitulated and returned to their duty" (8)

N.: "With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive." (10)

ADJ.: "it is this inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality" (15)

V.: "The messenger rode back at an easy trot, stopping pretty often at ale-houses by the way to drink, but evincing a tendency to keep his own counsel..." (15)

ADJ.: "What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow inscrutables inside." (16)

ADJ.: "Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful." (18)

ADJ.: "Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon under his flapped waistcoat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire." (20)

N.: "Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon under his flapped waistcoat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire." (20)

ADJ.: "The gentleman from Tellson's had nothing left for it but to empty his glass with an air of stolid desperation..." (22)

ADJ.: "I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle." (26)

N.: "if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water, there;" (27)