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1  A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
2  I was disconcerted, for I had broken away without quite seeing where I was going to.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
3  In what ecstasy of unhappiness I got these broken words out of myself, I don't know.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
4  As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
5  He had broken two ribs, they had wounded one of his lungs, and he breathed with great pain and difficulty, which increased daily.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
6  I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
7  The old Battery out on the marshes was our place of study, and a broken slate and a short piece of slate-pencil were our educational implements: to which Joe always added a pipe of tobacco.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
8  Mr. Jaggers's room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically pitched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
9  He who had been presented in the worst light at his trial, who had since broken prison and had been tried again, who had returned from transportation under a life sentence, and who had occasioned the death of the man who was the cause of his arrest.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV