All 17 Uses of
earnest
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- Something especially reckless 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), that many of the lookers-on, taking note of him now, said to one another they would hardly have thought the two were so alike.†
Chpt 2.3
- Projectors who had discovered every kind of remedy for the little evils with which the State was touched, except the remedy of setting to work in earnest to root out a single sin, poured their distracting babble into any ears they could lay hold of, at the reception of Monseigneur.†
Chpt 2.7
- You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden.†
Chpt 2.10
- You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden.†
Chpt 2.10
- I know this is a confidence," she modestly said, after a little hesitation, and in earnest tears, "I know you would say this to no one else.†
Chpt 2.13
- You leave your good father, my dear, in hands as earnest and as loving as your own; he shall be taken every conceivable care of; during the next fortnight, while you are in Warwickshire and thereabouts, even Tellson's shall go to the wall (comparatively speaking) before him.†
Chpt 2.18
- Doctor Manette sat meditating after these earnest words were spoken, and Mr. Lorry did not press him.†
Chpt 2.19
- Earnestness in you, is anything but alarming to me.†
Chpt 2.20
- Lucie with her arms stretched out to him, and with that old look of earnestness so concentrated and intensified, that it seemed as though it had been stamped upon her face expressly to give force and power to it in this one passage of her life.†
Chpt 3.2
- "As a wife and mother," cried Lucie, most earnestly, "I implore you to have pity on me and not to exercise any power that you possess, against my innocent husband, but to use it in his behalf.†
Chpt 3.3
- …from his long imprisonment; that, the accused had remained in England, always faithful and devoted to his daughter and himself in their exile; that, so far from being in favour with the Aristocrat government there, he had actually been tried for his life by it, as the foe of England and friend of the United States—as he brought these circumstances into view, with the greatest discretion and with the straightforward force of truth and earnestness, the Jury and the populace became one.†
Chpt 3.6
- Mr. Lorry held it open in his hand, gazing in his earnest face.†
Chpt 3.12
- Though he said it with a grave smile of earnestness, and though he even put the old man's hand to his lips, he did not part from him then.†
Chpt 3.12
- A most earnest, pressing, and emphatic entreaty, addressed to you in the most pathetic tones of the voice so dear to you, that you well remember.†
Chpt 3.13
- "Forbid it," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with additional solemnity, additional slowness, and additional tendency to hold forth and hold out, "as anything wot I have ever said or done should be wisited on my earnest wishes for them poor creeturs now!†
Chpt 3.14
- "If we ever get back to our native land," said Miss Pross, "you may rely upon my telling Mrs. Cruncher as much as I may be able to remember and understand of what you have so impressively said; and at all events you may be sure that I shall bear witness to your being thoroughly in earnest at this dreadful time.†
Chpt 3.14
Definition:
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(earnest) characterized by sincere belief
or:
intensely or excessively serious or determined