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1  Howsever, the boy went there to play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
2  She wants this boy to go and play there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
3  "I'm much of your opinion, boy," said he.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
4  It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
5  "You are to wait here, you boy," said Estella; and disappeared and closed the door.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
6  Drat that boy," interposed my sister, frowning at me over her work, "what a questioner he is.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
7  "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
8  That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
9  I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume that expression.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
10  Though she called me "boy" so often, and with a carelessness that was far from complimentary, she was of about my own age.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
11  But I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
12  When this horrible din had lasted a certain time, it mechanically awoke Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, who staggered at a boy fortuitously, and pulled his ears.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
13  Therefore, I was not only odd-boy about the forge, but if any neighbor happened to want an extra boy to frighten birds, or pick up stones, or do any such job, I was favored with the employment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
14  I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
15  So, we had our slices served out, as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march instead of a man and boy at home; and we took gulps of milk and water, with apologetic countenances, from a jug on the dresser.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
16  A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
17  For you do not know that Uncle Pumblechook, being sensible that for anything we can tell, this boy's fortune may be made by his going to Miss Havisham's, has offered to take him into town to-night in his own chaise-cart, and to keep him to-night, and to take him with his own hands to Miss Havisham's to-morrow morning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
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