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1  We always used that name for marshes, in our country.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
2  Going back to my window, I could see the two men moving over the marsh.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
3  Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
4  The winking lights upon the bridges were already pale, the coming sun was like a marsh of fire on the horizon.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
5  But whether Joe knew how poor I was, and how my great expectations had all dissolved, like our own marsh mists before the sun, I could not understand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
6  Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  They passed by under the window, looking at nothing else, and they did not go down to the landing-place which I could discern to be empty, but struck across the marsh in the direction of the Nore.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
8  My rapid mind pursued him to the town, made a picture of the street with him in it, and contrasted its lights and life with the lonely marsh and the white vapor creeping over it, into which I should have dissolved.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
9  But I must have lost it longer than I had thought, since, although I could recognize nothing in the darkness and the fitful lights and shadows of our lamps, I traced marsh country in the cold damp wind that blew at us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
10  It was like my own marsh country, flat and monotonous, and with a dim horizon; while the winding river turned and turned, and the great floating buoys upon it turned and turned, and everything else seemed stranded and still.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
11  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
12  Then, as the marsh winds made the fire glow and flare, I thought I heard the voice outside, of the man with the iron on his leg who had sworn me to secrecy, declaring that he couldn't and wouldn't starve until to-morrow, but must be fed now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
13  The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
14  There was the red sun, on the low level of the shore, in a purple haze, fast deepening into black; and there was the solitary flat marsh; and far away there were the rising grounds, between which and us there seemed to be no life, save here and there in the foreground a melancholy gull.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
15  But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
16  I turned my head aside, for, with a rush and a sweep, like the old marsh winds coming up from the sea, a feeling like that which had subdued me on the morning when I left the forge, when the mists were solemnly rising, and when I laid my hand upon the village finger-post, smote upon my heart again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
17  I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
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