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1  A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
2  Well, old chap," said Joe, "it do appear that she had settled the most of it, which I meantersay tied it up, on Miss Estella.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
3  When I had no more ticks to make, I folded all my bills up uniformly, docketed each on the back, and tied the whole into a symmetrical bundle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
4  He wore a flapping broad-brimmed traveller's hat, and under it a handkerchief tied over his head in the manner of a cap: so that he showed no hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
5  Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
6  The fear of losing Joe's confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
7  I was not related to the outlaw, or connected with him by any recognizable tie; he had put his hand to no writing or settlement in my favor before his apprehension, and to do so now would be idle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
8  Poor dear Joe, entangled in a little black cloak tied in a large bow under his chin, was seated apart at the upper end of the room; where, as chief mourner, he had evidently been stationed by Trabb.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
9  Mr. Wopsle struck in upon that; as one who knew all about relationships, having professional occasion to bear in mind what female relations a man might not marry; and expounded the ties between me and Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
10  He lodged at a sluice-keeper's out on the marshes, and on working-days would come slouching from his hermitage, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck and dangling on his back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
11  Previous to placing it before him, he went into the Aged's room with a clean white cloth, and tied the same under the old gentleman's chin, and propped him up, and put his nightcap on one side, and gave him quite a rakish air.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
12  In a back room, a high-shouldered man with a face-ache tied up in dirty flannel, who was dressed in old black clothes that bore the appearance of having been waxed, was stooping over his work of making fair copies of the notes of the other two gentlemen, for Mr. Jaggers's own use.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
13  That's it, Pip," said Joe; "and they took his till, and they took his cash-box, and they drinked his wine, and they partook of his wittles, and they slapped his face, and they pulled his nose, and they tied him up to his bedpust, and they giv him a dozen, and they stuffed his mouth full of flowering annuals to prewent his crying out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII