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1  This was very uncomfortable, and I was half afraid.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
2  Joe offered me more gravy, which I was afraid to take.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
3  I had been afraid until then to say a word about the play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
4  "Yes, ma'am," I said, to stop her, for I was afraid she was going to cry.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
5  Wemmick was up early in the morning, and I am afraid I heard him cleaning my boots.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
6  Don't be afraid of my being a blessing to him," said Estella; "I shall not be that.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
7  I am afraid he is a sad old rascal," said Herbert, smiling, "but I have never seen him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
8  Yet I am afraid the dreadful truth is, Herbert, that he is attached to me, strongly attached to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
9  I was afraid to sleep, even if I had been inclined, for I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
10  I could not have said what I was afraid of, for my fear was altogether undefined and vague, but there was great fear upon me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
11  As I brought another of the ragged chairs to the hearth and sat down, I remarked a new expression on her face, as if she were afraid of me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
12  I got away from him, without knowing how I did it, and mended the fire in the room where we had been together, and sat down by it, afraid to go to bed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
13  "I am afraid you won't leave any of it for him," said I, timidly; after a silence during which I had hesitated as to the politeness of making the remark.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
14  I was very much afraid of him again, now that he had worked himself into this fierce hurry, and I was likewise very much afraid of keeping away from home any longer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
15  The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
16  In the mean time, Herbert and I were to consider separately what it would be best to say; whether we should devise any pretence of being afraid that he was under suspicious observation; or whether I, who had never yet been abroad, should propose an expedition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
17  I was secretly afraid of him when I saw him so dexterous; but I felt morally and physically convinced that his light head of hair could have had no business in the pit of my stomach, and that I had a right to consider it irrelevant when so obtruded on my attention.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
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