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1  Not to mention bearers, all the money that could be spared were wanted for my mother.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
2  I put out my hand, and Mr. Wemmick at first looked at it as if he thought I wanted something.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
3  Not that we wanted to take them, you understand; we went out as lookers on; me, and Mr. Wopsle, and Pip.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
4  He never smoked so late, and it seemed to hint to me that he wanted comforting, for some reason or other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
5  I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
6  But long after that, and long after I had heard the clinking of the teacups and was quite ready, I wanted the resolution to go down stairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
7  When I had ordered everything I wanted, I directed my steps towards Pumblechook's, and, as I approached that gentleman's place of business, I saw him standing at his door.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
8  He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
9  She was most noticeable, I thought, in respect of her extremities; for, her hair always wanted brushing, her hands always wanted washing, and her shoes always wanted mending and pulling up at heel.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
10  Again and again and again, my sister had traced upon the slate, a character that looked like a curious T, and then with the utmost eagerness had called our attention to it as something she particularly wanted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
11  I could hardly have imagined dear old Joe looking so unlike himself or so like some extraordinary bird; standing as he did speechless, with his tuft of feathers ruffled, and his mouth open as if he wanted a worm.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
12  After two or three days, when I had established myself in my room and had gone backwards and forwards to London several times, and had ordered all I wanted of my tradesmen, Mr. Pocket and I had a long talk together.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
13  Therefore, I made no remark on Joe's first head; merely saying as to his second, that the tidings had indeed come suddenly, but that I had always wanted to be a gentleman, and had often and often speculated on what I would do, if I were one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
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  We told him why we wanted him to come into the kitchen, and he slowly laid down his hammer, wiped his brow with his arm, took another wipe at it with his apron, and came slouching out, with a curious loose vagabond bend in the knees that strongly distinguished him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
16  As it turned out, however, that he only wanted me for a dramatic lay-figure, to be contradicted and embraced and wept over and bullied and clutched and stabbed and knocked about in a variety of ways, I soon declined that course of instruction; though not until Mr. Wopsle in his poetic fury had severely mauled me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
17  It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
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