All 5 Uses of
latent
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- And it was such vapouring all about his ears, like a troublesome confusion of blood in his own head, added to a latent uneasiness in his mind, which had already made Charles Darnay restless, and which still kept him so.†
Chpt 2.24latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- The latent uneasiness in Darnay's mind was roused to vigourous life by this letter.
Chpt 2.24 *latent = potentially existing but not presently active
- His latent uneasiness had been, that bad aims were being worked out in his own unhappy land by bad instruments, and that he who could not fail to know that he was better than they, was not there, trying to do something to stay bloodshed, and assert the claims of mercy and humanity.†
Chpt 2.24latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- I had supposed that it must be latent in the people somewhere; but, I had never seen it break out, until I saw it in the dying boy.†
Chpt 3.10
- Perhaps the following silence, perhaps some latent disclosure in the expression of Miss Pross's face, perhaps a sudden misgiving apart from either suggestion, whispered to Madame Defarge that they were gone.†
Chpt 3.14