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1  "Most marshes is solitary," said Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
2  I had done so, and was looking along the desolate garden walk, when I beheld a solitary figure in it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
3  But we considered ourselves well off, notwithstanding, for a more solitary place we could not have found.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
4  When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  It had passed through my thoughts to cry out for help again; though few could know better than I, the solitary nature of the spot, and the hopelessness of aid.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
6  Out of such remembrances I brought into the light of the fire a half-formed terror that it might not be safe to be shut up there with him in the dead of the wild solitary night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
7  The influences of his solitary hut-life were upon him besides, and gave him a savage air that no dress could tame; added to these were the influences of his subsequent branded life among men, and, crowning all, his consciousness that he was dodging and hiding now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
8  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 Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
9  We should then be well in those long reaches below Gravesend, between Kent and Essex, where the river is broad and solitary, where the water-side inhabitants are very few, and where lone public-houses are scattered here and there, of which we could choose one for a resting-place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
10  There was the red sun, on the low level of the shore, in a purple haze, fast deepening into black; and there was the solitary flat marsh; and far away there were the rising grounds, between which and us there seemed to be no life, save here and there in the foreground a melancholy gull.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
11  But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX