Grindstone. What with the stream of sparks out of the stone, all their wicked atmosphere seemed gore and fire. No creature in the group was free from the smear of blood. Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it. Illustration by Harry Furniss for the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities from The Testimonial Edition, published 1910.