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attenuated
to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value "...the power frame attenuated by spare living, and the sullen and desperate compression of the lips in sleep..."
sacrustab
an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house. "...and sent word to the sacristan who kept the keys of the church, that there might be need to ring the tocsin by-and-by."
balustrades
posts "Then, a flickering streak played behind the architecture of the front, picking out transparent places, and showing where balustrades, arches, and windows were."
lamenting
To express grief for or about; mourn "... uneasy rushes of wind went through thehall, among the old spears and knives, and passed lamenting up the stairs, and shook the curtains of the bed where the last Marquis had slept."
confound
to perplex or amaze, esp. by a sudden disturbance or surprise "and as such, my maxim us, Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On him our hopes were fix, God save the King!"
knavish
untrustworthy "and as such, my maxim us, Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On him our hopes were fix, God save the King!"
emphatically
strongly expressive, using emphasis in speech or action "... nodding her head emphatically..."
remitted
to transmit or send "And he was, therefore, as little surprise as a man couldbe, to find himself awakened at the small inn to which he had been remitted until morning, in the middle of the night."
evasively
Intentionally vague or ambiguous "'At another time, sir,'...he turned, evasively, 'the present time is ill-conwenient for explainin.'"
cogitation
concerted thought or reflection; meditation; contemplation "After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look at his patron..."
subdued
lowered in intensity or strength "All was subdued and quiet, and Lucie was more at ease than she had been"
countenance
(calm) facial expression "Mr. Lorry's countenance fell."
prevaricate
to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie "Don't prevaricate"
guineas
A gold coin issued in England from "...a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens..."
vexation
frustration "I cry with vexatioon and disappointment"
complacency
a feeling of quiet pleasure or security ""...then he points his finers, with something of a complacency of a curator or authorised exponent..."
tumbrils
carts "Six tumbrils carry the day's win to La Guillotine."
rapacious
greed "Sow the same seed of rapacious licence and oppressions over agian, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kidn."
equipages
A carriage (sometimes horse-drawn) "...and they shall be seen to be the carriages of absolute monarchs, the equipages of feudal nobles, the toilettes of flarring Jezebels..."
elicit
to bring out/ evoke "His indifference to fire was sufficiently remarkable to elict a word of remonstrance of Mr. Lorry..."
remonstrance
protest "His indifference to fire was sufficiently remarkable to elict a word of remonstrance of Mr. Lorry..."
repent
to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc. "It may be that I shall yet stand your friend, if you deserve it, and repent in action- not in words."
heralded
snet messages/ messanger "...a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made.."
sublime
of high spirit, royal "...a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made.."
conceded
true, just, proper, in favour of "Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at the favoured period, as at this."
pilferer
one who steals "...and to-morrow if a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence."
tremulous
shaking "with drooping eads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way though the thick mud..."
forlornness
unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance "...and it had roamed in its forlornness up te hill, like and evil spirit.."
fraught
filled "...the changed times were fraught with other obstacles than these."
capricious
unsteady "...as their capricious judgement or fancy deemed best for the dawning."
epoch
time period "...it was the epoch of belief, it was the eopch of incredulity..."
incredulity
skeptical "...it was the epoch of belief, it was the eopch of incredulity..."
ambuscade
to attack from a concealed psoition; ambush "...and by the sudden emergence from ambuscade, the sharpreining up across their way..."
potentate
a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler “…that magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor of Londn, was made to stand and deliver...”
turnkey
a person who has charge of the keys of a prison; jailer. "...pridoners in London gaols fought battles with their tunkeys..."
superlative
extreames "...-in short, the period was so far like th present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
waning
to decrease in strength, intensity, etc "The light in the guard-house, half derived from the waning oil-lamps of the night..."
pigmy
Unimportant, small ""...with the hail drivingom between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village."
benighted
intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened "When he had identified these objects in what benighted mind he had, he said, in a dialect that was just intelligible..."
discern
to distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different; discriminate "As it advanced, the mender of roads would discern without surprise, that it was a shaggy-haired man of almost barbarian aspect, tall, in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads, fim, rough, swart, steeped in the mud and dust..."
swart
of a dark hue "As it advanced, the mender of roads would discern without surprise, that it was a shaggy-haired man of almost barbarian aspect, tall, in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads, fim, rough, swart, steeped in the mud and dust..."
edifying
benefit "...for whose preservation Monseigneur made edifying spaces of barbarous and barren wilderness."
desolation
devastation; ruin "Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation.
yore
Obsolete. of old; long ago "The prison on the crag was not so dominant as of yore; there were soldiers to guard it, but not many..."
crag
a steep, rugged rock; rough, broken, projecting part of a rock. "The prison on the crag was not so dominant as of yore; there were soldiers to guard it, but not many..."
laudable
praiseworthy; commendable "Impelled by a laudable ambition to study the art and mystery of his father's honest calling..."
homage
omething done or given in acknowledgment or consideration of the worth of another "The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than did in this distrust of his wife."
efficacy
capacity for producing a desired result or effect "The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than did in this distrust of his wife."
dejected
depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited "The dejected Mrs. Cruncher shook her head."
eminent
prominent ""Wether his meditations on morality had touched his liver, or whether his general health had been previously at all amiss, or whether he desired to show a little attention to an eminent man, is not so much to the purspose, as that he made a short call upon his medical adviser..."
procured
to obtain "He procured a pipe from a neighbouring public-house, and smoked it, looking in at the railings and maturely considering the spot."
cavalcade
horsedrawn carriages "A bear-leader, a popular street character of the time, was impressed as an additional ornament, before the cavalcade had gone far down the Strand..."
acclamation
a loud shout or other demonstration of welcome, goodwill, or approval "Practical suggestions being much needed, this suggestion, too, was recieved with acclamation, and the coach was immediately filled wiht eight inside and a dozen out..."
vociferating
to speak or cry out loudly or noisily; shout; bawl. "...clapping is hands to his mouth nevertheless, and vociferating in a surprising hear and wiht the greatest ardour, 'Spies! Yaha! Tst, tst! Spi-ies!'"
ardour
great warmth of feeling; passion; devotion "...clapping is hands to his mouth nevertheless, and vociferating in a surprising hear and wiht the greatest ardour, 'Spies! Yaha! Tst, tst! Spi-ies!'"
smote
to hit or strike rather hard ""The elder gentleman took the cry so ill, that he watched his opprotunity, and smote the young gentleman on the ear."
concourse
a large open space for accommodating crowds "...when an unusual concourse pouring down Fleet-street westward, attracted his atention."
benevolent
intended for benefits rather than profit ""And it was from the gifts bestowed upon him towards the execution of this benevolent purpose. that he recruited his finances, as just now observed."
heathen
an irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized person ""With his straw in his mouth, Mr. Cruncher sat watching the two streams, like the heathen rustic who had for several centuries been on dury watching one stream..."
cowed
To frighten with threats or a show of force; intimidated "So cowed was their condition, and so longand hard their experience of what such a man could do to them..."
deigning
condescend "Without deigning to look at the assemblage a second time, Monsieur the Marqui leaned back in his seat.."
prostrated
lying flat or at full length "...was now among the company in the outer rooms, much prostrated before by mankind..."
escutcheon
a shield or shieldlike surface on which a coat of arms is depicted "Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two."
ignobly
of low character; not noble "Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two."
garrison
any military post "... but from which he travelled back some dozen miles or more, to a garrison and dockyard, and there collected information..."
debauched
corrupted "Allowing for my learned friend's appearance being careless and slovenly if not debauched..."
slovenly
in an untidy or careless manner. "Allowing for my learned friend's appearance being careless and slovenly if not debauched..."
beguile
to pass (time) pleasantly "...it was said laughingly, and to beguile the time."
maligned
To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of "He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one.
asseveration
To declare seriously or positively; affirm. "...and on the faith of his solemn asseveration that he already considered the prisoner as good as dead and gone."
immaculate
free from moral blemish or impurity "That, the lofty example of this immaculate and unimpeachable witness for the Crown..."
immolate
to sacrifice "That, he had been the prisoner's friend, but, at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his ingamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom..."
reproach
to blame "That Providence, however, had put it into the heart of a person who was beyond fear and beyond reproach, to ferret out the nature of the prisoner's schemes..."
sculleries
a small room or section of a pantry or kitchen in which cooking utensils are cleaned and stored. "Your deeds got into extemporised stong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleried, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air."
ogled
to eye; look or stare at "...were but newly released from the horror of beign ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate brutality and ferocity worthy of Abyssinia or Ashantee."
incommodious
inconvenient, uncomfortable "It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious."
solicitude
anxiety or concern "In a dead silence and stillness-the prisoner under trial looking lovingly at his wife, his wife only looking from him to look wiht solicitude, at her father, Doctor Manette keeping his eyes fixed on the reader..."
melancholy
a gloomy state of mind "I, Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year 1767."
doleful
sorrowful; mournful "I, Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year 1767."
secrete
to place out of sight; hide; conceal "I design to secrete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of concealment for it."
unimpaired
not damaged or diminished in any respect "I know from terrible warnings I have noted in myself that my reason will not long remain unimaired, but I solemnly declare that I am at this time in the possession of my right mind..."
augment
to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase "...representing that it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it, that it quickly raised her, even from that shock."
acquiesced
agree; consent "It was silently acquiesced in, and they passed her over the seats in the hall to a raised place, where he, by leaning over the dock, could fold her in his arms."
engendered
To procreate "...had communicated itself to the prisoner's servant, and had engendered in him a holy determination to examine his master's..."
earnestness
sincerity "Something especially reskless in his demeanour, not only gave him a disreputable look, but so diminished the strong resemblance he undoubtedly bore to the prisoner (which his momentary earnestness, when they were compared together, had strengthened)..."
patronage
clientele "He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and atronage than he could have shown..."
condescension
behavior that is patronizing "He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and atronage than he could have shown..."
frugal
not wasteful "Their housekeeping was of a very frugal kind: not only because that was the safest way of life, involving the least offence to the people..."
zealous
devoted or diligent "...and after embracing the ever zealous and faithful Pross who lifted her; he took his wife in his arms, and carried her up to theri rooms."
malice
desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another "...the innocent were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and black malice..."
supplication
petition "The last supplication but one I make to you, is, that you will believe this of me."
reconcilement
to win over to friendliness "...to whom the event, through a gradual process of reconcilement to the inevitable..."
gaunt
extremely thin and bony "...there was even to be no bridesmaid but the gaunt Miss Pross.
menagerie
a place where wild animals are kept "Jerry Cruncher worried his breakfast rather than ate it, growling over it like any four-footed inmate of a menagerie."
convivial
friendly; agreeable "Exceedingly red-eyed and grim, as if he had been up all night at a party which had taken anything but a convivial turn..."
dissipated
to indulge in extravagant pleasure "...going home stealthily and unsteadily to his lodgings, like a dissipated cat."
poniarded
stabbed "one fellow, to our knowledge, was poniarded on the spot of professing some insolent delicacy respectomg his daughter."
insatiate
impossible to satisfy "All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine."
ruminating
pondering ""'Gone deaf in an hour?' said Mr. Cruncher, ruminating, with his mind much disturbed; 'wot's come to her?'"
irresolutely
doubtful "...the spy irresolutely asked.."

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