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1  It was paved and clean, but grass was growing in every crevice.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
2  It was a curious place, indeed; but remarkably well kept and clean.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
3  They were clean and new, and I spread them out and handed them over to him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
4  Wemmick was up early in the morning, and I am afraid I heard him cleaning my boots.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
5  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
6  The Aged especially, might have passed for some clean old chief of a savage tribe, just oiled.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
7  Mr. Pumblechook's own room was given up to me to dress in, and was decorated with clean towels expressly for the event.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
8  There we found, sitting by a fire, a very old man in a flannel coat: clean, cheerful, comfortable, and well cared for, but intensely deaf.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
9  Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
10  Similarly, he dealt us clean plates and knives and forks, for each course, and dropped those just disused into two baskets on the ground by his chair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
11  Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home, so that we stood shivering in the back-yard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
12  Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home, so that we stood shivering in the back-yard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
13  When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
14  Previous to placing it before him, he went into the Aged's room with a clean white cloth, and tied the same under the old gentleman's chin, and propped him up, and put his nightcap on one side, and gave him quite a rakish air.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
15  What lay heaviest on my mind was, the consideration that six days intervened between me and the day of departure; for I could not divest myself of a misgiving that something might happen to London in the meanwhile, and that, when I got there, it would be either greatly deteriorated or clean gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX