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1  This was my homely thought, as I contemplated the box-tree.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
2  And then we contemplated one another afresh, and laughed again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
3  As I fixed my eyes hopelessly on Joe, Joe contemplated me in dismay.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
4  The pale young gentleman and I stood contemplating one another in Barnard's Inn, until we both burst out laughing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
5  I released my hands as soon as I could, and found that I was beginning slowly to settle down to the contemplation of my condition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
6  As we contemplated the fire, and as I thought what a difficult vision to realize this same Capital sometimes was, I put my hands in my pockets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
7  In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
8  Looking in at the door, after knocking in vain, I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
9  At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II