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1  It seemed to me that we continued thus for a long time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
2  I too sat down before the fire and gazed at the coals, and nothing was said for a long time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
3  "It's a bad job," said Wemmick, scratching his head, "and I assure you I haven't been so cut up for a long time."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
4  It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
5  I think it must have been a full year after our hunt upon the marshes, for it was a long time after, and it was winter and a hard frost.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  Whenever I fell asleep, I awoke with the notion I had had in the sluice-house, that a long time had elapsed and the opportunity to save him was gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
7  It was likewise to be noted of this majestic spirit, that whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time and walked an immense distance, it perceptibly came from a closely contiguous wall.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXI
8  Then, he conducted me to a bower about a dozen yards off, but which was approached by such ingenious twists of path that it took quite a long time to get at; and in this retreat our glasses were already set forth.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
9  Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought, that perhaps after all Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune when my time was out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
10  No one but themselves and Mrs. Coiler the toady neighbor showed any interest in this part of the conversation, and it appeared to me that it was painful to Herbert; but it promised to last a long time, when the page came in with the announcement of a domestic affliction.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII