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1  On a moderate computation, it was many months, that Sunday, since I had left Joe and Biddy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
2  We had a quiet day on the Sunday, and we rode out into the country, and then walked in the fields.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
3  I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
4  It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss Havisham's.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
5  My sister was never left alone now; but Joe more than readily undertook the care of her on that Sunday afternoon, and Biddy and I went out together.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
6  Deeming Sunday the best day for taking Mr. Wemmick's Walworth sentiments, I devoted the next ensuing Sunday afternoon to a pilgrimage to the Castle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
7  On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
8  I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
9  That I could have been at our old church in my old church-going clothes, on the very last Sunday that ever was, seemed a combination of impossibilities, geographical and social, solar and lunar.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
10  We dined on these occasions in the kitchen, and adjourned, for the nuts and oranges and apples to the parlor; which was a change very like Joe's change from his working-clothes to his Sunday dress.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
11  I noticed that after the funeral Joe changed his clothes so far, as to make a compromise between his Sunday dress and working dress; in which the dear fellow looked natural, and like the Man he was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
12  This was all as it should be, and I went out in my new array, fearfully ashamed of having to pass the shopman, and suspicious after all that I was at a personal disadvantage, something like Joe's in his Sunday suit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
13  I had never heard Joe read aloud to any greater extent than this monosyllable, and I had observed at church last Sunday, when I accidentally held our Prayer-Book upside down, that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
14  You and I and Joe would have wanted nothing then, and Joe and I would perhaps have gone partners when I was out of my time, and I might even have grown up to keep company with you, and we might have sat on this very bank on a fine Sunday, quite different people.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
15  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
16  I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV