Showing posts with label tale of two cities. Show all posts
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Monday, October 29, 2007

More Tale of Two Cities Vocabulary

The man was very besmirched looking as he lay out on the street with the sense that he was corrupted or tarnished in some way.
As he hid that blunderbuss under his coat, the other man could see the old gun in plain view.
He lay cadaverous looking, sprawled out on the ground as he was, like a dead body.
The woman stopped capitulating toward the stranger; she had given in to his almighty power over her.
The contraband had fallen into the wrong hands; the forbidden substance was in great danger.
He had discomposed the grave in the cemetery; he had disturbed it.
It made me feel bad seeing him so dolefully; to see him sad like that hurt me more than it hurt him.
The man with his swirling smile looked very eddying to the crowd.
The girl was emaciated due to her abnormal eating habits of not eating at all.
In the epoch of the dinosaurs, the era was ruled by many uncivilized beasts.
The team of explorers expeditiously mapped the entire area; perfect accuracy and care was needed to perform this duty correctly.
There was an expostulation sticking out of his coat; the projecting object looked inapt in the place that is was positioned.
The boy feigned in such a way that it was disturbing to even try to comprehend the fact that it was all a fake.
I acted very genial when I saw the same, friendly look on his face.
The teacher was very inscrutable when it came to world politics because I wasn’t the only person there who couldn’t understand what he was saying.
Seeing the lady act so insensible toward the poor shop clerk, I was forced to step in and stop the horrible lack of understanding by the woman.
The whole crew was extremely mutinous and rebellious toward the captain when they had been at sea for three months and still had not found land.
It was a myriad number of days before the seemingly everlasting journey was over at last.
The outspoken woman was nondescript because of her plainness and lack of fashion.
The postilion stopped the carriage and got out to let the passengers out of the back.
The provender, or provisions, of the farmers was so great because of the lack of crops produced this year.
The requisition for fish this year was so great, that the fish vendors requested that people eat less fish than usual.
The retinue of Jesus was a large number as he was so popular with his people.
The rustic community of Portsmouth is the opposite of the urban community of Providence.
The sagacity of the wise men was so great that they could answer any question without having to think about it.
A substratum between my house and the ground is needed to keep my house firmly on the ground with the support it needs.
The turnkey was forced to jail so many criminals this past year, that a second jailer was needed to keep up with it all. The unfathomable ocean floor lay deep at the bottom of the ocean.

A Tale of Two Cities Vocabulary

Some sentences made using vocab, set around A Tale of Two Cities.

They acquitted Darnay after realizing that they couldn’t be sure whether it was he or Sam Carton that was in the bar that night.
There was no other true altercation than the one between the criminal and the police officer.
To make an asseveration toward someone can be both good and bad.
The Bacchanalian rioters stopped at nothing to get their hands on that spy and to destroy him.
Charles Darnay is in my opinion a fake barrister; he has every one else do his work for him.
The man felt great commiseration for the poor woman who had recently lost her husband.
The cowed mob retreated from it’s dim-witted rioting after learning that the police had arrived.
The debauched Mr. Carton felt as though he had no other purpose in life than to assist Darnay in his court cases.
Jerry Cruncher has mysterious demeanour in this novel as he is a grave digger.
Mr. Carton was despondent in his life.
The disreputable Navy officer was not well respected by his co-workers for they were always teasing and making fun of him.
The purpose of this functionary was to collect taxes for the South side of New York City and to arrest anybody that didn’t pay their taxes.
The greatest imputation that the customers had was that there were no magazines for sale in the grocery store.
Sam Carton felt as though his life was incorrigible and that he had wasted too much time to start a new life.
The indictment was to be held on February 14, 2003 in Seattle in order try and prove the criminal guilty of fraud.
He had given the man multiple insinuations before having to just tell him that there was food on his face.
The man smoked laudanum in order to keep himself happy and from overwhelming pain and agony.
He was maligned toward the poor man who’s daughter had just recently died from a terrible epidemic sweeping the country.
The two women tried to obliterate the sorrowful man from his place in the streets.
His obstinacy took him right out of the picture for a possible promotion because the boss greatly dislikes people of that nature.
The two young boys were parricides and were serving time in jail for the death of their parent.
The pernicious snake was extremely poisonous and could kill any man in one bite with it’s extra large fangs.
The politic judge made the right decision in the case involving the murder of an innocent woman.
He had the propensity to not respond very well every time his teacher called on him to answer a question.
The boy was extremely rapturous after receiving his report card, as he had gotten all A’s on it.
The President was extremely reposed after receiving word that the plant in Russia hadn’t blown up.
The women superciliously turned down the man’s application for the accounting job.
The girl’s supplication to bring extra food this time on the campout was brutally refused by her parents.
The boy was extremely timorous after coming out of the graveyard.
The tocsin was rung extremely loud as there was a hurricane outside and the residents needed to take shelter in a safe place.
The President must be extremely unimpeachable in his approach to being elected for a second term.
The man performed with great vehemence as he stood up in that courtroom that day to defend his client which had been wrongly accused of something he didn’t do. The poor woman’s entire visage was completely covered with acne as her case of it was extremely bad.