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1  But, there was one remarkable piece of evidence on the spot.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
2  Before we departed from that spot, four soldiers standing in a ring, fired twice into the air.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
3  I little thought," said Estella, "that I should take leave of you in taking leave of this spot.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
4  I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
5  There were traces of his gore in that spot, and I covered them with garden-mould from the eye of man.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
6  Here Joe's hat tumbled off the mantel-piece, and he started out of his chair and picked it up, and fitted it to the same exact spot.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
7  The early dinner hour at Joe's, left me abundance of time, without hurrying my talk with Biddy, to walk over to the old spot before dark.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
8  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
9  Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
10  As foreign steamers would leave London at about the time of high-water, our plan would be to get down the river by a previous ebb-tide, and lie by in some quiet spot until we could pull off to one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
11  All that water-side region of the upper and lower Pool below Bridge was unknown ground to me; and when I struck down by the river, I found that the spot I wanted was not where I had supposed it to be, and was anything but easy to find.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI