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1  We passed the finger-post, and held straight on to the churchyard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  But, to any mind, I thought, the connection here was clear and straight.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
3  As it was almost noon, Joe and I held straight on to Miss Havisham's house.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
4  I went straight to Mr. Pumblechook's, and was immensely relieved to find him not at home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
5  You can take a hackney-coach at the stage-coach office in London, and come straight to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
6  Why, yes, Sir," said Joe, "me and Wopsle went off straight to look at the Blacking Ware'us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
7  Instead of going straight to the gate, too, she stepped back into the passage, and beckoned me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
8  If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
9  I went straight back to the Temple, where I found the terrible Provis drinking rum and water and smoking negro-head, in safety.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
10  There were periodical occasions when Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick went over the office accounts, and checked off the vouchers, and put all things straight.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
11  Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
12  He wore his hat on the back of his head, and looked straight before him: walking in a self-contained way as if there were nothing in the streets to claim his attention.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
13  With his good honest face all glowing and shining, and his hat put down on the floor between us, he caught both my hands and worked them straight up and down, as if I had been the last-patented Pump.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
14  On the previous night, I had been sent straight to bed in an attic with a sloping roof, which was so low in the corner where the bedstead was, that I calculated the tiles as being within a foot of my eyebrows.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
15  In those times a bed was always to be got there at any hour of the night, and the chamberlain, letting me in at his ready wicket, lighted the candle next in order on his shelf, and showed me straight into the bedroom next in order on his list.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
16  From Little Britain I went, with my check in my pocket, to Miss Skiffins's brother, the accountant; and Miss Skiffins's brother, the accountant, going straight to Clarriker's and bringing Clarriker to me, I had the great satisfaction of concluding that arrangement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
17  I inferred from the methodical nature of Miss Skiffins's arrangements that she made tea there every Sunday night; and I rather suspected that a classic brooch she wore, representing the profile of an undesirable female with a very straight nose and a very new moon, was a piece of portable property that had been given her by Wemmick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
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