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1 He had escaped when he was made half wild by me and my murderous intentions; and his punishment was light.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XLII
2 There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XIV
3 The appointed punishment for his return to the land that had cast him out, being Death, and his case being this aggravated case, he must prepare himself to Die.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter LVI
4 All the while knowing the madness of my heart to be so very mad and misplaced, that I was quite conscious it would have served my face right, if I had lifted it up by my hair, and knocked it against the pebbles as a punishment for belonging to such an idiot.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XVII
5 Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter VIII
6 Without having any definite idea of the penalties I had incurred, it was clear to me that village boys could not go stalking about the country, ravaging the houses of gentlefolks and pitching into the studious youth of England, without laying themselves open to severe punishment.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XII
7 Among the wretched creatures before him whom he must single out for special address was one who almost from his infancy had been an offender against the laws; who, after repeated imprisonments and punishments, had been at length sentenced to exile for a term of years; and who, under circumstances of great violence and daring, had made his escape and been re-sentenced to exile for life.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter LVI