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1  A change passed over Mr. Trabb.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
2  Mr. Trabb's boy was the most audacious boy in all that country-side.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
3  I selected the materials for a suit, with the assistance of Mr. Trabb's judgment, and re-entered the parlor to be measured.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
4  Mr. Trabb had sliced his hot roll into three feather-beds, and was slipping butter in between the blankets, and covering it up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
5  Mr. Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
6  Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
7  I had not advanced another two hundred yards when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb's boy approaching.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
8  Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb's boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
9  His blue bag was slung over his shoulder, honest industry beamed in his eyes, a determination to proceed to Trabb's with cheerful briskness was indicated in his gait.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
10  On the other hand, Trabb's boy might worm himself into his intimacy and tell him things; or, reckless and desperate wretch as I knew he could be, might hoot him in the High Street.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
11  My dear sir," said Mr. Trabb, as he respectfully bent his body, opened his arms, and took the liberty of touching me on the outside of each elbow, "don't hurt me by mentioning that.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
12  But I saw him collapse as his master rubbed me out with his hands, and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
13  "Now, this," said Mr. Trabb, taking down a roll of cloth, and tiding it out in a flowing manner over the counter, preparatory to getting his hand under it to show the gloss, "is a very sweet article."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
14  Whether Mr. Trabb's local work would have sat more gracefully on him than on me, may be a question; but I am conscious that he carried off his rather old clothes much better than I carried off my new suit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
15  So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
16  It was tempting to think of that expensive Mercenary publicly airing his boots in the archway of the Blue Boar's posting-yard; it was almost solemn to imagine him casually produced in the tailor's shop, and confounding the disrespectful senses of Trabb's boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
17  Putting on the best clothes I had, I went into town as early as I could hope to find the shops open, and presented myself before Mr. Trabb, the tailor, who was having his breakfast in the parlor behind his shop, and who did not think it worth his while to come out to me, but called me in to him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
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