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1  Herbert was my intimate companion and friend.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
2  "Since your change of fortune and prospects, you have changed your companions," said Estella.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
3  I was about to excuse myself, as being but a bad companion just then, when Wemmick anticipated me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
4  The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, "He tried to murder me."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
5  I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
6  You and her have pretty well hunted me out of this country, so far as getting a easy living in it goes, and I've took up with new companions, and new masters.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
7  The fear of losing Joe's confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
8  The truth was, that she had objected to me as an expensive companion who did Herbert no good, and that, when Herbert had first proposed to present me to her, she had received the proposal with such very moderate warmth, that Herbert had felt himself obliged to confide the state of the case to me, with a view to the lapse of a little time before I made her acquaintance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV