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1  I derived that, from the look they interchanged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
2  I derived from this, that Joe's education, like Steam, was yet in its infancy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
3  We always derived profound satisfaction from making an appointment for this purpose.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
4  That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
5  While he was putting up the other cast and coming down from the chair, the thought crossed my mind that all his personal jewelry was derived from like sources.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
6  No wisdom on earth could have given me the comfort that I should have derived from their simplicity and fidelity; but I could never, never, undo what I had done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
7  I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
8  That the secret must be confided to Herbert as a matter of unavoidable necessity, even if I could have put the immense relief I should derive from sharing it with him out of the question, was plain to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
9  Years afterwards, I made a dreadful likeness of that woman, by causing a face that had no other natural resemblance to it than it derived from flowing hair to pass behind a bowl of flaming spirits in a dark room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
10  I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds; but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
11  I alluded to the advantages I had derived in my first rawness and ignorance from his society, and I confessed that I feared I had but ill repaid them, and that he might have done better without me and my expectations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
12  Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
13  From this last speech I derived the notion that Miss Havisham, for some reason or no reason, had not taken him into her confidence as to her designing me for Estella; that he resented this, and felt a jealousy about it; or that he really did object to that scheme, and would have nothing to do with it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI