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1  He was awfully cold, to be sure.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
2  I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
3  The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
4  What nervous folly made me start, and awfully connect it with the footstep of my dead sister, matters not.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  '"'I don't know how she's there,' says Arthur, shivering dreadful with the horrors, 'but she's standing in the corner at the foot of the bed, awful mad.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
6  His eyes looked so awfully hungry too, that when I handed him the file and he laid it down on the grass, it occurred to me he would have tried to eat it, if he had not seen my bundle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
7  And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
8  If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
9  But I can compare the effect of it, when on, to nothing but the probable effect of rouge upon the dead; so awful was the manner in which everything in him that it was most desirable to repress, started through that thin layer of pretence, and seemed to come blazing out at the crown of his head.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL