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1  Mr. Gradgrind was much obliged.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
2  Mr. Gradgrind did not seem favourably impressed by these cogent remarks.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
3  Mr. Gradgrind frowned, and waved off the objectionable calling with his hand.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
4  Mr. Gradgrind, though hard enough, was by no means so rough a man as Mr. Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
5  Mr. Gradgrind and his friend Bounderby stood near the door, ready to take her away.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
6  Mr. Gradgrind walked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
7  To his matter-of-fact home, which was called Stone Lodge, Mr. Gradgrind directed his steps.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
8  Eyeing Mr. Bounderby from head to foot again, he turned from him, as from a man finally disposed of, to Mr. Gradgrind.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
9  In such terms Mr. Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
10  So, Mr. Gradgrind and his daughter took Cecilia Jupe off with them to Stone Lodge, and on the way Louisa never spoke one word, good or bad.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
11  Mr. Bounderby being restrained by this mild suggestion, Mr. Gradgrind found an opening for his eminently practical exposition of the subject.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
12  Sissy, who all this time had been faintly excusing herself with tears in her eyes, was now waved over by the master of the house to Mr. Gradgrind.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
13  Childers took one of his hands out of his pockets, stroked his face and chin, and looked, with a good deal of doubt and a little hope, at Mr. Gradgrind.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
14  Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
15  With that he regarded her attentively with his fixed eye, surveyed his company with his loose one, kissed her, shook his head, and handed her to Mr. Gradgrind as to a horse.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
16  As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
17  Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library: a point whereon little rivers of tabular statements periodically flowed into the howling ocean of tabular statements, which no diver ever got to any depth in and came up sane.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
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