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1  Wemmick was up early in the morning, and I am afraid I heard him cleaning my boots.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
2  I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  I found him in his dressing-room surrounded by his stock of boots, already hard at it, washing his hands of us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
4  I ascended it now, in lighter boots than of yore, and tapped in my old way at the door of Miss Havisham's room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
5  Upon that, I turned down the long passage which I had first trodden in my thick boots, and he made his bell sound.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
6  Gradually there arose before me the hat, head, neckcloth, waistcoat, trousers, boots, of a member of society of about my own standing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
7  She gave me a triumphant glance in passing me, as if she rejoiced that my hands were so coarse and my boots were so thick, and she opened the gate, and stood holding it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
8  The pupils then entered among themselves upon a competitive examination on the subject of Boots, with the view of ascertaining who could tread the hardest upon whose toes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
9  As I sat down, and he preserved his attitude and bent his brows at his boots, I felt at a disadvantage, which reminded me of that old time when I had been put upon a tombstone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
10  "I am not paid, Pip," said he, coolly, "to carry your words to any one;" and then gathered up his coat-tails, as he had gathered up the subject, and stood frowning at his boots as if he suspected them of designs against him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
11  It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar's posting-yard; it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor's shop, and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb's boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
12  This was all I heard that night before my sister clutched me, as a slumberous offence to the company's eyesight, and assisted me up to bed with such a strong hand that I seemed to have fifty boots on, and to be dangling them all against the edges of the stairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
13  Mr. Jaggers never laughed; but he wore great bright creaking boots, and, in poising himself on these boots, with his large head bent down and his eyebrows joined together, awaiting an answer, he sometimes caused the boots to creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
14  It was quite a wilderness, and there were old melon-frames and cucumber-frames in it, which seemed in their decline to have produced a spontaneous growth of weak attempts at pieces of old hats and boots, with now and then a weedy offshoot into the likeness of a battered saucepan.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
15  When I got up to my little room and said my prayers, I did not forget Joe's recommendation, and yet my young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state, that I thought long after I laid me down, how common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith; how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
16  The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent, representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
17  The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs, and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
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