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1  And he smeared his ragged rough sleeve over his eyes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
2  I lived rough, that you should live smooth; I worked hard, that you should be above work.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
3  After an hour or so of this travelling, we came to a rough wooden hut and a landing-place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
4  Moving the lamp as the man moved, I made out that he was substantially dressed, but roughly, like a voyager by sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
6  The cleared space had been enclosed with a rough fence, and looking over it, I saw that some of the old ivy had struck root anew, and was growing green on low quiet mounds of ruin.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
7  The boat had returned, and his guard were ready, so we followed him to the landing-place made of rough stakes and stones, and saw him put into the boat, which was rowed by a crew of convicts like himself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
8  But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding his own leg, which had an old chafe upon it and was bloody, but which he handled as roughly as if it had no more feeling in it than the file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III