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1  I first become aware of myself down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
2  I am ignorant what may become of me very soon, how poor I may be, or where I may go.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
3  You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
4  I had become aware of an alarming growling overhead, and had probably expressed the fact in my countenance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
5  For I believed one of two other persons to have become possessed of it, and to have turned it to this cruel account.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
6  I was slow to gain strength, but I did slowly and surely become less weak, and Joe stayed with me, and I fancied I was little Pip again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
7  It had been a fine bright day, but had become foggy as the sun dropped, and I had had to feel my way back among the shipping, pretty carefully.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
8  As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  At the end of the passage, while the bell was still reverberating, I found Sarah Pocket, who appeared to have now become constitutionally green and yellow by reason of me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
10  That miserable man would seem for a time to have become convinced of his errors, when far removed from the scenes of his old offences, and to have lived a peaceable and honest life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
11  At first, a misgiving crossed me that Wemmick would be instantly dismissed from his employment; but it melted as I saw Mr. Jaggers relax into something like a smile, and Wemmick become bolder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
12  Yes, perhaps I ought to mention," said Herbert, who had become curiously crestfallen and meek, since we entered on the interesting theme, "that she is rather below my mother's nonsensical family notions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
13  I had heard of her as leading a most unhappy life, and as being separated from her husband, who had used her with great cruelty, and who had become quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
14  It is so difficult to become clearly possessed of the contents of almost any letter, in a violent hurry, that I had to read this mysterious epistle again twice, before its injunction to me to be secret got mechanically into my mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
15  That Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that any such man as that man had been described to be would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer was scarcely to be imagined.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII