All 18 Uses of
bound
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- "And has left me," answered the nephew, "bound to a system that is frightful to me, responsible for it, but powerless in it; seeking to execute the last request of my dear mother's lips, and obey the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy and to redress; and tortured by seeking assistance and power in vain."†
Chpt 2.9
- You are a man of business and bound to have a reason.†
Chpt 2.12
- In the midst of them is a tall man with his arms bound—tied to his sides—like this!†
Chpt 2.15
- With the aid of his indispensable cap, he represented a man with his elbows bound fast at his hips, with cords that were knotted behind him.†
Chpt 2.15
- I stand aside, messieurs, by my heap of stones, to see the soldiers and their prisoner pass (for it is a solitary road, that, where any spectacle is well worth looking at), and at first, as they approach, I see no more than that they are six soldiers with a tall man bound, and that they are almost black to my sight—except on the side of the sun going to bed, where they have a red edge, messieurs.†
Chpt 2.15
- His arms are swelled because of being bound so tight, his wooden shoes are large and clumsy, and he is lame.†
Chpt 2.15
- He is bound as before, and in his mouth there is a gag—tied so, with a tight string, making him look almost as if he laughed.†
Chpt 2.15
- "As to the great service," said Carton, "I am bound to avow to you, when you speak of it in that way, that it was mere professional claptrap, I don't know that I cared what became of you, when I rendered it.†
Chpt 2.20
- Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound her husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and companion, in a life of quiet bliss, Lucie sat in the still house in the tranquilly resounding corner, listening to the echoing footsteps of years.†
Chpt 2.21
- Ever busily winding the golden thread that bound them all together, weaving the service of her happy influence through the tissue of all their lives, and making it predominate nowhere, Lucie heard in the echoes of years none but friendly and soothing sounds.†
Chpt 2.21
- As if a train of powder laid from the outermost bound of Saint Antoine Quarter to the wine-shop door, had been suddenly fired, a fast-spreading murmur came rushing along.†
Chpt 2.22
- See the old villain bound with ropes.†
Chpt 2.22 *
- Over the chair they had thrown a red flag, and to the back of it they had bound a pike with a red cap on its top.†
Chpt 3.6
- "That there Roger Cly, master," said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron-bound visage.†
Chpt 3.8
- Her hair was torn and ragged, and her arms were bound to her sides with sashes and handkerchiefs.†
Chpt 3.10
- Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city to the boundless everlasting sea.†
Chpt 3.13 *
- It was a dark winter day, and what with the shadows within, and what with the shadows without, he could but dimly discern the others who were brought there to have their arms bound.†
Chpt 3.13
- He cannot easily touch his face, his arms being bound.†
Chpt 3.15
Definitions:
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(bound as in: out of bounds) a boundary or limit
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(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location