All 8 Uses of
spectacle
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- "It is the law," remarked the ancient clerk, turning his surprised spectacles upon him.†
Chpt 2.2
- His bloated gaoler, who wore spectacles to read with, glanced over them to assure himself that he had taken his place, and went through the list, making a similar short pause at each name.†
Chpt 3.6 *
- The rats had crept out of their holes to look on, and they remained looking on for hours; soldiers and police often passing between them and the spectacle, and making a barrier behind which they slunk, and through which they peeped.†
Chpt 2.7
- 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
- They looked at one another, as he used his blue cap to wipe his face, on which the perspiration had started afresh while he recalled the spectacle.†
Chpt 2.15
- As they walked on in silence, he could not but see how used the people were to the spectacle of prisoners passing along the streets.†
Chpt 3.1
- Affected, and impressed with terror as they both were, by this spectacle of ruin, it was not a time to yield to such emotions.†
Chpt 3.12 *
- So used are the regular inhabitants of the houses to the spectacle, that in many windows there are no people, and in some the occupation of the hands is not so much as suspended, while the eyes survey the faces in the tumbrils.†
Chpt 3.15
Definitions:
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(1)
(spectacle as in: made a spectacle of herself) a notable or unusual event that attracts attention
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(2)
(spectacle as in: wore spectacles) an optical lens (generally in pairs as eyeglasses)