All 9 Uses of
utmost
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- "I doubt, sir," returned the nephew, "whether, if it had carried me to the utmost brink of death, you would have cared to stop me there."†
Chpt 2.9 *
- Then Mr. Stryver turned and burst out of the Bank, causing such a concussion of air on his passage through, that to stand up against it bowing behind the two counters, required the utmost remaining strength of the two ancient clerks.†
Chpt 2.12
- The utmost good that I am capable of now, Miss Manette, I have come here to realise.†
Chpt 2.13
- He, therefore, made haste to say: "It is of the utmost importance to me (you know, Citizen, even better than I, of how much importance), that I should be able to communicate to Mr. Lorry of Tellson's Bank, an English gentleman who is now in Paris, the simple fact, without comment, that I have been thrown into the prison of La Force.†
Chpt 3.1
- The gaoler standing at his side, and the other gaolers moving about, who would have been well enough as to appearance in the ordinary exercise of their functions, looked so extravagantly coarse contrasted with sorrowing mothers and blooming daughters who were there—with the apparitions of the coquette, the young beauty, and the mature woman delicately bred—that the inversion of all experience and likelihood which the scene of shadows presented, was heightened to its utmost.†
Chpt 3.1
- He knew, as every one employed as he was did, that he was never safe; that flight was impossible; that he was tied fast under the shadow of the axe; and that in spite of his utmost tergiversation and treachery in furtherance of the reigning terror, a word might bring it down upon him.†
Chpt 3.8
- Perhaps he obtained it as his last and utmost precaution against evil, yesterday.†
Chpt 3.12
- Straining his powers of listening to the utmost, he listened for any sound that might denote suspicion or alarm.†
Chpt 3.13
- It was not merely desirable to avoid overloading the coach, but it was of the highest importance that the time occupied in examining it and its passengers, should be reduced to the utmost; since their escape might depend on the saving of only a few seconds here and there.†
Chpt 3.14
Definition:
greatest