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1  Our conference was held in the state parlor, which was feebly lighted by one candle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
2  He took my chin in his large hand and turned up my face to have a look at me by the light of the candle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  I followed the candle down, as I had followed the candle up, and she stood it in the place where we had found it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
4  This dilated until it filled the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my dreadful burden.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
6  She locked it after admitting me, as she had done before, and again preceded me into the dark passage where her candle stood.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  We traversed but one side of the square, however, and at the end of it she stopped, and put her candle down and opened a door.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
8  The fire had not then burnt unusually low, nor was the snuff of the candle very long; the candle, however, had been blown out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
9  She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
10  It began with the strange gentleman's sitting down at the table, drawing the candle to him, and looking over some entries in his pocket-book.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
11  But I was no sooner in the passage than I extinguished my candle; for I saw Miss Havisham going along it in a ghostly manner, making a low cry.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
12  He then put up the pocket-book and set the candle a little aside, after peering round it into the darkness at Joe and me, to ascertain which was which.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
13  She carried a bare candle in her hand, which she had probably taken from one of the sconces in her own room, and was a most unearthly object by its light.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
14  She took no notice of me until she had the candle in her hand, when she looked over her shoulder, superciliously saying, "You are to come this way to-day," and took me to quite another part of the house.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
15  In those times a bed was always to be got there at any hour of the night, and the chamberlain, letting me in at his ready wicket, lighted the candle next in order on his shelf, and showed me straight into the bedroom next in order on his list.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
16  It then occurred to me as possible that the man might have slipped into my rooms; so, lighting my candle at the watchman's, and leaving him standing at the door, I examined them carefully, including the room in which my dreaded guest lay asleep.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
17  He held it between himself and the candle, tasted the port, rolled it in his mouth, swallowed it, looked at his glass again, smelt the port, tried it, drank it, filled again, and cross-examined the glass again, until I was as nervous as if I had known the wine to be telling him something to my disadvantage.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
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