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1  I was three-and-twenty years of age.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
2  Herbert himself had come of age eight months before me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
3  Here's Mr. Pip, aged parent," said Wemmick, "and I wish you could hear his name.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
4  Though she called me "boy" so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was of about my own age.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
5  I judged him to be about my own age, but he was much taller, and he had a way of spinning himself about that was full of appearance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
6  But here I anticipate a little, for I was not a Finch, and could not be, according to the sacred laws of the society, until I came of age.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
7  He came of rich people down in Somersetshire, who had nursed this combination of qualities until they made the discovery that it was just of age and a blockhead.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
8  It was an uncomfortable consideration on a twenty-first birthday, that coming of age at all seemed hardly worth while in such a guarded and suspicious world as he made of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
9  He gave the medical testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII