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1  Tell me as an old, old friend.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
2  "Tell me in my ear," said Miss Havisham, bending down.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  She tells me that she wants to see you on a little matter of business you mentioned to her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
4  Tell him that, and he'll take it as a compliment," answered Wemmick; "he don't mean that you should know what to make of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
5  As the man made no answer when I asked him what he did there, but eluded my touch in silence, I ran to the Lodge and urged the watchman to come quickly; telling him of the incident on the way back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
6  Yielding to it in the same mechanical kind of way, I left a note in pencil for Herbert, telling him that as I should be so soon going away, I knew not for how long, I had decided to hurry down and back, to ascertain for myself how Miss Havisham was faring.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
7  He held it between himself and the candle, tasted the port, rolled it in his mouth, swallowed it, looked at his glass again, smelt the port, tried it, drank it, filled again, and cross-examined the glass again, until I was as nervous as if I had known the wine to be telling him something to my disadvantage.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
8  Stepping in for a moment at the open gate, and looking around me with the uncomfortable air of a stranger who had no business there, I saw the auctioneer's clerk walking on the casks and telling them off for the information of a catalogue-compiler, pen in hand, who made a temporary desk of the wheeled chair I had so often pushed along to the tune of Old Clem.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII