All 4 Uses of
Cupid
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender—and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.†
Chpt 1.4
- "—respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw—so long dead—" Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look towards the hospital procession of negro cupids.†
Chpt 1.4
- For, what would staid British responsibility and respectability have said to orange-trees in boxes in a Bank courtyard, and even to a Cupid over the counter?†
Chpt 3.2 *Cupid = Roman mythology: god of love
- Tellson's had whitewashed the Cupid, but he was still to be seen on the ceiling, in the coolest linen, aiming (as he very often does) at money from morning to night.†
Chpt 3.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(Cupid) Roman mythology: god of love; a small, winged boy whose arrows make those struck fall in love
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In earlier Greek mythology, Cupid was strikingly handsome.