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1  I ought to give you a reason for fighting, too.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
2  "Come and fight," said the pale young gentleman.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  There had been a violent struggle, perhaps a fight.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
4  The chambers are retired, and we shall be alone together, but we shan't fight, I dare say.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
5  The more I thought of the fight, and recalled the pale young gentleman on his back in various stages of puffy and incrimsoned countenance, the more certain it appeared that something would be done to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
6  Crowding up with these reflections came the reflection that I had seen him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had heard that other convict reiterate that he had tried to murder him; that I had seen him down in the ditch tearing and fighting like a wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
7  What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe's furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI