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1  By these conditions I promised to abide.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
2  By and by, his door opened and he came out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
3  By degrees, I became calm enough to release my grasp and partake of pudding.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
4  By my boy, I was giv to understand as Compeyson was out on them marshes too.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
5  By degrees it became an enormous injury to me that he stood before the fire.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
6  By and by, I noticed Wemmick's arm beginning to disappear again, and gradually fading out of view.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
7  By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
8  By degrees he fell to reposing such great confidence in me, as to ask my advice in reference to his own affairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah's ark.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
10  By this time we had come to the house, where I found his room to be one just within the side-door, with a little window in it looking on the courtyard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
11  By this time, the rooms were vastly different from what I had found them, and I enjoyed the honor of occupying a few prominent pages in the books of a neighboring upholsterer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
12  By dint of straining that term out of myself several times and tapping the old gentleman on the chest to associate it with him, I at last succeeded in making my meaning understood.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
13  By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
14  By that time, I was staggering on the kitchen floor like a little drunkard, through having been newly set upon my feet, and through having been fast asleep, and through waking in the heat and lights and noise of tongues.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
15  By then making a loop of about a couple of miles into the open country at the back of Pumblechook's premises, I got round into the High Street again, a little beyond that pitfall, and felt myself in comparative security.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
16  By some invisible agency, my guardian wound him up to a pitch little short of ferocity about this trifle; and he fell to baring and spanning his arm to show how muscular it was, and we all fell to baring and spanning our arms in a ridiculous manner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
17  By degrees I learnt, and chiefly from Herbert, that Mr. Pocket had been educated at Harrow and at Cambridge, where he had distinguished himself; but that when he had had the happiness of marrying Mrs. Pocket very early in life, he had impaired his prospects and taken up the calling of a Grinder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
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