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1  "Don't lose your temper," said Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
2  However, her temper was greatly improved, and she was patient.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
3  Home had never been a very pleasant place to me, because of my sister's temper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
4  I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
5  My sister was not in a very bad temper when we presented ourselves in the kitchen, and Joe was encouraged by that unusual circumstance to tell her about the bright shilling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
6  He must have had a tiresome journey of it, for Mr. Wopsle, being knocked up, was in such a very bad temper that if the Church had been thrown open, he would probably have excommunicated the whole expedition, beginning with Joe and myself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
7  Joe, who had ventured into the kitchen after me as the dustpan had retired before us, drew the back of his hand across his nose with a conciliatory air, when Mrs. Joe darted a look at him, and, when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me, as our token that Mrs. Joe was in a cross temper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV