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1  She were in poor elth, and quite broke.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
2  I hope I know my poor grandpapa's position.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
3  Your poor sister is much the same as when you left.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
4  Mr. Wopsle hesitated, and we all began to conceive rather a poor opinion of him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
5  I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
6  If now considered in the light of a liberty, excuse it for the love of poor old days.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
7  My poor sister Charlotte, who was next me and died before she was fourteen, was a striking example.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
8  We don't know what you have done, but we wouldn't have you starved to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creatur.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
9  Her relations were poor and scheming, with the exception of my father; he was poor enough, but not time-serving or jealous.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
10  I mention this in this place, of a fixed purpose, because it is the clew by which I am to be followed into my poor labyrinth.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
11  Whether you scold me or approve of me," returned poor Biddy, "you may equally depend upon my trying to do all that lies in my power, here, at all times.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
12  The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
13  Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt; but they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon themselves.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
14  When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  Poor dear Joe, entangled in a little black cloak tied in a large bow under his chin, was seated apart at the upper end of the room; where, as chief mourner, he had evidently been stationed by Trabb.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
16  Of the manner and extent to which he took our trumps into custody, and came out with mean little cards at the ends of hands, before which the glory of our Kings and Queens was utterly abased, I say nothing; nor, of the feeling that I had, respecting his looking upon us personally in the light of three very obvious and poor riddles that he had found out long ago.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
17  Yet in the London streets so crowded with people and so brilliantly lighted in the dusk of evening, there were depressing hints of reproaches for that I had put the poor old kitchen at home so far away; and in the dead of night, the footsteps of some incapable impostor of a porter mooning about Barnard's Inn, under pretence of watching it, fell hollow on my heart.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
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