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1  It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
2  I am ashamed to say it," I returned, "and yet it's no worse to say it than to think it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
3  It bewildered me, and under its influence I continued at heart to hate my trade and to be ashamed of home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
4  I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
5  Turning into Cheapside and rattling up Newgate Street, we were soon under the walls of which I was so ashamed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
6  Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
7  That I was ashamed to tell him exactly how I was placed, and what I had come down to, I do not seek to conceal; but I hope my reluctance was not quite an unworthy one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
8  After that, when we went in to supper, the place and the meal would have a more homely look than ever, and I would feel more ashamed of home than ever, in my own ungracious breast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
9  This was all as it should be, and I went out in my new array, fearfully ashamed of having to pass the shopman, and suspicious after all that I was at a personal disadvantage, something like Joe's in his Sunday suit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
10  And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII