All 14 Uses of
consequence
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- …the mail was waylaid by seven robbers, and the guard shot three dead, and then got shot dead himself by the other four, "in consequence of the failure of his ammunition:" after which the mail was robbed in peace;
Chpt 1.1consequence = result
- The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
Chpt 1.4consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.†
Chpt 2.2
- The entrance of the Judge, and a consequent great stir and settling down in the court, stopped the dialogue.†
Chpt 2.2
- As a consequence, country airs circulated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.†
Chpt 2.6
- As to finances public, because Monseigneur could not make anything at all of them, and must consequently let them out to somebody who could; as to finances private, because Farmer-Generals were rich, and Monseigneur, after generations of great luxury and expense, was growing poor.
Chpt 2.7consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Because he is lame, and consequently slow, they drive him with their guns—like this!
Chpt 2.15
- For such variety of reasons, Tellson's was at that time, as to French intelligence, a kind of High Exchange; and this was so well known to the public, and the inquiries made there were in consequence so numerous, that Tellson's sometimes wrote the latest news out in a line or so and posted it in the Bank windows, for all who ran through Temple Bar to read.†
Chpt 2.24
- The Lord above knows what the compromising consequences would be to numbers of people, if some of our documents were seized or destroyed; and they might be, at any time, you know, for who can say that Paris is not set afire to-day, or sacked to-morrow!†
Chpt 2.24
- Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction; consequently she knew no more of that "nonsense" (as she was pleased to call it) than Mr. Cruncher did.
Chpt 3.7consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- You know the consequences of mixing them?†
Chpt 3.9
- Checking his steps which had begun to tend towards an object, he took a turn or two in the already darkening street, and traced the thought in his mind to its possible consequences.†
Chpt 3.12
- Happily, she bethought herself of the consequences of what she did, in time to check herself and go back.†
Chpt 3.14
Definition:
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(consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)