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1 When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister "went on the Rampage," in a more alarming degree than at any previous period.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XII
2 There were periodical occasions when Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick went over the office accounts, and checked off the vouchers, and put all things straight.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter LI
3 That, if Joe knew it, and at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his beer was flat or thick, the conviction that he suspected Tar in it, would bring a rush of blood to my face.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter VI
4 As I am now generalizing a period of my life with the object of clearing my way before me, I can scarcely do so better than by at once completing the description of our usual manners and customs at Barnard's Inn.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXIV
5 I detested the chambers beyond expression at that period of repentance, and could not endure the sight of the Avenger's livery; which had a more expensive and a less remunerative appearance then than at any other time in the four-and-twenty hours.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXIV
6 I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XII
7 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 ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XIV
8 As I never assisted at any other representation of George Barnwell, I don't know how long it may usually take; but I know very well that it took until half-past nine o clock that night, and that when Mr. Wopsle got into Newgate, I thought he never would go to the scaffold, he became so much slower than at any former period of his disgraceful career.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XV