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1  Her shoes came up at the heel, her hair grew bright and neat, her hands were always clean.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
2  Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  I had asked him the question inhospitably enough, for I resented the sort of bright and gratified recognition that still shone in his face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
4  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
5  Startop, being a lively, bright young fellow, and Drummle being the exact opposite, the latter was always disposed to resent him as a direct personal affront.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
6  But she neither asked me where I had been, nor why I had kept her waiting; and there was a bright flush upon her face, as though something had happened to delight her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  Joe fell into the deepest disgrace with both, for offering the bright suggestion that I might only be presented with one of the dogs who had fought for the veal-cutlets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
8  My sister was not in a very bad temper when we presented ourselves in the kitchen, and Joe was encouraged by that unusual circumstance to tell her about the bright shilling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
9  We got a chair out, ready for Mrs. Joe's alighting, and stirred up the fire that they might see a bright window, and took a final survey of the kitchen that nothing might be out of its place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
10  There I stood, for minutes, looking at Joe, already at work with a glow of health and strength upon his face that made it show as if the bright sun of the life in store for him were shining on it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
11  But, in the funereal room, with that figure of the grave fallen back in the chair fixing its eyes upon her, Estella looked more bright and beautiful than before, and I was under stronger enchantment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
12  We walked to town, my sister leading the way in a very large beaver bonnet, and carrying a basket like the Great Seal of England in plaited Straw, a pair of pattens, a spare shawl, and an umbrella, though it was a fine bright day.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
13  I would not have listened for more, if I could have heard more; so I drew away from the window, and sat down in my one chair by the bedside, feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my bright fortunes should be the loneliest I had ever known.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
14  Then, we went into the hut, where there was a smell of tobacco and whitewash, and a bright fire, and a lamp, and a stand of muskets, and a drum, and a low wooden bedstead, like an overgrown mangle without the machinery, capable of holding about a dozen soldiers all at once.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
15  As I crossed by the fountain, I saw his lighted back windows looking bright and quiet, and, when I stood for a few moments in the doorway of the building where I lived, before going up the stairs, Garden Court was as still and lifeless as the staircase was when I ascended it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
16  Mr. Jaggers never laughed; but he wore great bright creaking boots, and, in poising himself on these boots, with his large head bent down and his eyebrows joined together, awaiting an answer, he sometimes caused the boots to creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
17  It being Saturday night, I found the landlord looking rather grimly at these records; but as my business was with Joe and not with him, I merely wished him good evening, and passed into the common room at the end of the passage, where there was a bright large kitchen fire, and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
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