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1  There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle "examined" the scholars once a quarter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
2  Joe had been at the Three Jolly Bargemen, smoking his pipe, from a quarter after eight o'clock to a quarter before ten.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
3  They had not enjoyed themselves a quarter so much, before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he furnished.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
4  Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
5  As often as I was restless in the night, and that was every quarter of an hour, I reflected what an unkindness, what an injury, what an injustice, Biddy had done me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
6  Our oarsmen were so fresh, by dint of having occasionally let her drive with the tide for a minute or two, that a quarter of an hour's rest proved full as much as they wanted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
7  We were noticing this, and saying how that the mist rose with a change of wind from a certain quarter of our marshes, when we came upon a man, slouching under the lee of the turnpike house.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
8  His uneasiness increasing instead of subsiding, after a quarter of an hour's consideration, he set off for the coach-office with Startop, who volunteered his company, to make inquiry when the next coach went down.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
9  Estella opened the gate as usual, and, the moment she appeared, Joe took his hat off and stood weighing it by the brim in both his hands; as if he had some urgent reason in his mind for being particular to half a quarter of an ounce.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
10  That is to say, you will now take your money affairs entirely into your own hands, and you will draw from Wemmick one hundred and twenty-five pounds per quarter, until you are in communication with the fountain-head, and no longer with the mere agent.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI