All 4 Uses of
dominate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- As to the men and women, their choice on earth was stated in the prospect—Life on the lowest terms that could sustain it, down in the little village under the mill; or captivity and Death in the dominant prison on the crag.†
Chpt 2.8 *dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- Saint Antoine's blood was up, and the blood of tyranny and domination by the iron hand was down—down on the steps of the Hotel de Ville where the governor's body lay—down on the sole of the shoe of Madame Defarge where she had trodden on the body to steady it for mutilation.†
Chpt 2.21domination = control or power over others
- The prison on the crag was not so dominant as of yore; there were soldiers to guard it, but not many; there were officers to guard the soldiers, but not one of them knew what his men would do—beyond this: that it would probably not be what he was ordered.†
Chpt 2.23dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- In a city dominated by the axe, alone at night, with natural sorrow rising in him for the sixty-three who had been that day put to death, and for to-morrow's victims then awaiting their doom in the prisons, and still of to-morrow's and to-morrow's, the chain of association that brought the words home, like a rusty old ship's anchor from the deep, might have been easily found.†
Chpt 3.9dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
Definition:
to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous