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1  Well," said Wemmick, "you'll see a wild beast tamed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
2  I reply, that depends on the original wildness of the beast, and the amount of taming.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
3  He relinquished them with an agreeable smile, and combated with the door as if it were a wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
4  Indeed, I go so far as to hope that I regarded myself while dressing as a species of savage young wolf or other wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
5  The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
6  Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
7  Crowding up with these reflections came the reflection that I had seen him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had heard that other convict reiterate that he had tried to murder him; that I had seen him down in the ditch tearing and fighting like a wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX