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1  It began the moment we sat down to dinner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
2  Joe pronounced this word, as if it began with at least twelve capital Bs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
3  Then Joe began to hammer and clink, hammer and clink, and we all looked on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
4  "Well, boy," Uncle Pumblechook began, as soon as he was seated in the chair of honor by the fire.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
5  But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
6  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
7  But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
8  He held me by the collar and stared at me so, that I began to think his first idea about cutting my throat had revived.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
9  It was then I began to understand that everything in the room had stopped, like the watch and the clock, a long time ago.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
10  When Barnwell began to go wrong, I declare that I felt positively apologetic, Pumblechook's indignant stare so taxed me with it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
11  Biddy, who was the most obliging of girls, immediately said she would, and indeed began to carry out her promise within five minutes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
12  As soon as this volume began to circulate, Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt fell into a state of coma, arising either from sleep or a rheumatic paroxysm.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
13  Indeed, when I knew her better I began to think it was a Mercy she had any features at all, so very blank and high was the dead wall of her face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
14  For when I yielded to the temptation presented by the casks, and began to walk on them, I saw her walking on them at the end of the yard of casks.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
15  I thought it a little too much that he should complain of being cut short in his flower after all, as if he had not been running to seed, leaf after leaf, ever since his course began.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
16  But when, in the clearer light of next morning, I began to reconsider the matter and to hear it discussed around me on all sides, I took another view of the case, which was more reasonable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
17  My state of mind, as I have described it, began before I was up in the morning, and lasted long after the subject had died out, and had ceased to be mentioned saving on exceptional occasions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
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