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1  "I knows what I thinks," observed the Jack.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
2  "Don't be cheeky, Jack," remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
3  He did this with the air of a Jack who was so right that he could afford to do anything.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
4  Without going near it yourself, you could always hear of the safety of Tom, Jack, or Richard, through Mr. Herbert.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
5  He was puzzled what to do; not the less, because I gave him my opinion that it was not safe to try to get Tom, Jack, or Richard too far out of the way at present.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
6  The Jack at the Ship was instructed where the drowned man had gone down, and undertook to search for the body in the places where it was likeliest to come ashore.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
7  "I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades," said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
8  A Custum 'Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons," said the Jack, repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt, "when they comes betwixt him and his own light.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
9  The boatswain, unmanned for the first time, respectfully dried his eyes on the Jack, and then cheering up, and addressing Mr. Wopsle as Your Honor, solicited permission to take him by the fin.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
10  No other company was in the house than the landlord, his wife, and a grizzled male creature, the "Jack" of the little causeway, who was as slimy and smeary as if he had been low-water mark too.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
11  In the infinite meaning of his reply and his boundless confidence in his views, the Jack took one of his bloated shoes off, looked into it, knocked a few stones out of it on the kitchen floor, and put it on again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
12  On arriving before the battlements, I found the Union Jack flying and the drawbridge up; but undeterred by this show of defiance and resistance, I rang at the gate, and was admitted in a most pacific manner by the Aged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII