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1  Several curious little circumstances transpired as the action proceeded.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
2  Under these circumstances I thought myself well rid of him for a shilling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
3  I thought it best to hint, through the medium of a meditative look, that this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
4  I kept an eye on Orlick after that night, and, whenever circumstances were favorable to his dancing at Biddy, got before him to obscure that demonstration.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
5  I cannot conceive why everybody of his standing who visited at our house should always have put me through the same inflammatory process under similar circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
6  At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
7  In his working-clothes, Joe was a well-knit characteristic-looking blacksmith; in his holiday clothes, he was more like a scarecrow in good circumstances, than anything else.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
8  Under the circumstances, I felt that Joe could hardly fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger to be put into the black velvet coach; therefore, I said nothing of him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
9  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
10  Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had a toady neighbor; a widow lady of that highly sympathetic nature that she agreed with everybody, blessed everybody, and shed smiles and tears on everybody, according to circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
11  Yes; but my dear Handel," Herbert went on, as if we had been talking, instead of silent, "its having been so strongly rooted in the breast of a boy whom nature and circumstances made so romantic, renders it very serious.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
12  They took up several obviously wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas, instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
13  I began to consider whether I was not more naturally and wholesomely situated, after all, in these circumstances, than playing beggar my neighbor by candle-light in the room with the stopped clocks, and being despised by Estella.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
14  I recalled the hopeless circumstances by which she had been surrounded in the miserable little shop and the miserable little noisy evening school, with that miserable old bundle of incompetence always to be dragged and shouldered.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
15  As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
16  He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself, for he referred to his having been told by Mr. Jaggers that I was not designed for any profession, and that I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with the average of young men in prosperous circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
17  At once ferocious and maudlin, I was made to murder my uncle with no extenuating circumstances whatever; Millwood put me down in argument, on every occasion; it became sheer monomania in my master's daughter to care a button for me; and all I can say for my gasping and procrastinating conduct on the fatal morning, is, that it was worthy of the general feebleness of my character.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
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