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1  Either Orlick, or the strange man who had shown me the file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
2  You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
3  A dread possessed me that when I least expected it, the file would reappear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
4  It almost seemed to me as if he must stoop down presently, to file at his leg.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  The last I heard of him, I stopped in the mist to listen, and the file was still going.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
6  And he stirred it and he tasted it; not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
7  I knew it to be Joe's file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the moment I saw the instrument.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
8  I got a dreadful start, when I thought I heard the file still going; but it was only a sheep-bell.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
9  He'd no more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
10  He did this so that nobody but I saw the file; and when he had done it he wiped the file and put it in a breast-pocket.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
11  There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
12  I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
13  His eyes looked so awfully hungry too, that when I handed him the file and he laid it down on the grass, it occurred to me he would have tried to eat it, if he had not seen my bundle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
14  I coaxed myself to sleep by thinking of Miss Havisham's, next Wednesday; and in my sleep I saw the file coming at me out of a door, without seeing who held it, and I screamed myself awake.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
15  For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
16  But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding his own leg, which had an old chafe upon it and was bloody, but which he handled as roughly as if it had no more feeling in it than the file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
17  No need to take a file from his pocket and show it to me; no need to take the handkerchief from his neck and twist it round his head; no need to hug himself with both his arms, and take a shivering turn across the room, looking back at me for recognition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
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