All 16 Uses of
utter
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Perfectly still and silent, and not even fallen back in her chair, she sat under his hand, utterly insensible; with her eyes open and fixed upon him, and with that last expression looking as if it were carved or branded into her forehead.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1) *
- He formed this speech with his lips many times before he could utter it.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)
- His hands released her as he uttered this cry, and went up to his white hair, which they tore in a frenzy.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 2)
- Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson's door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.†
Chpt 2.1 (definition 2)
- The young gentleman uttered this exultant sound with mysterious significance.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 2)
- "You have no idea how such an apprehension weighs on the sufferer's mind, and how difficult—how almost impossible—it is, for him to force himself to utter a word upon the topic that oppresses him."†
Chpt 2.19 (definition 1)
- Instantly Madame Defarge's knife was in her girdle; the drum was beating in the streets, as if it and a drummer had flown together by magic; and The Vengeance, uttering terrific shrieks, and flinging her arms about her head like all the forty Furies at once, was tearing from house to house, rousing the women.†
Chpt 2.22 (definition 2)
- My dear Mr. Lorry, it is because I am a Frenchman born, that the thought (which I did not mean to utter here, however) has passed through my mind often.†
Chpt 2.24 (definition 1)
- Such vapouring, combined with the extravagant plots of Monseigneur for the restoration of a state of things that had utterly exhausted itself, and worn out Heaven and earth as well as itself, was hard to be endured without some remonstrance by any sane man who knew the truth.†
Chpt 2.24 (definition 1)
- The old man uttered an irrepressible cry.†
Chpt 3.2 (definition 2)
- No sooner did he face her, than Miss Pross uttered a scream, and clapped her hands.†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 2)
- He had not previously uttered a word.†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 2) *
- Her eyes were dilated and wild, and she constantly uttered piercing shrieks, and repeated the words, 'My husband, my father, and my brother!' and then counted up to twelve, and said, 'Hush!'†
Chpt 3.10 (definition 2)
- They continued to be uttered in their regular succession, with the cry, 'My husband, my father, and my brother!' the counting up to twelve, and 'Hush!'†
Chpt 3.10 (definition 2)
- But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, 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.†
Chpt 3.11 (definition 2)
- Lost, utterly lost!†
Chpt 3.12 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (utter as in: utter stupidity) complete or total (used as an intensifier--typically when stressing how bad something is)
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(2) (utter as in: utter a complaint) say something or make a sound with the voice