All 7 Uses of
dispose
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater places of business, its contemporaries, had taken so many lives, that, if the heads laid low before it had been ranged on Temple Bar instead of being privately disposed of, they would probably have excluded what little light the ground floor had, in a rather significant manner.†
Chpt 2.1
- The jackal then invigorated himself with a bum for his throttle, and a fresh application to his head, and applied himself to the collection of a second meal; this was administered to the lion in the same manner, and was not disposed of until the clocks struck three in the morning.†
Chpt 2.5
- "I don't feel disposed to say much.†
Chpt 2.11 *
- The dead man disposed of, and the crowd being under the necessity of providing some other entertainment for itself, another brighter genius (or perhaps the same) conceived the humour of impeaching casual passers-by, as Old Bailey spies, and wreaking vengeance on them.†
Chpt 2.14
- Disposing these articles about him in skilful manner, he bestowed a parting defiance on Mrs. Cruncher, extinguished the light, and went out.†
Chpt 2.14
- He regretted that Charles was not there; was more than half disposed to object to the loving little plot that kept him away; and drank to him affectionately.†
Chpt 2.17
- "Nor have I." "If any one of these men, or all of these men, were disposed to spare him—which is a large supposition; for what is his life, or any man's to them!†
Chpt 3.11
Definition:
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(dispose as in: dispose of the waste) to throw away