1 It was like striking out a horseshoe complete, in a single blow.
2 When we had completed these preparations, they drove up, wrapped to the eyes.
3 I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything.
4 Biddy's first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty that had completely vanquished me.
5 From that room, too, the daylight was completely excluded, and it had an airless smell that was oppressive.
6 Being by this time a perfect Fury and a complete success, she made a dash at the door which I had fortunately locked.
7 It was the only good thing I had done, and the only completed thing I had done, since I was first apprised of my great expectations.
8 I could make nothing of this, except that it was meant that I should make nothing of it, and I went home again in complete discomfiture.
9 I went on with my explanation, and told her how I had hoped to complete the transaction out of my means, but how in this I was disappointed.
10 It was completely done, however, and when we were going out of church Wemmick took the cover off the font, and put his white gloves in it, and put the cover on again.
11 After three days' delay, during which the crown prosecution stood over for the production of the witness from the prison-ship, the witness came, and completed the easy case.
12 Probably, it took about a dozen drowned men to fit him out completely; and that may have been the reason why the different articles of his dress were in various stages of decay.
13 With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
14 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.
15 As I am now generalizing a period of my life with the object of clearing my way before me, I can scarcely do so better than by at once completing the description of our usual manners and customs at Barnard's Inn.
16 My reply was so Unexpected, that Mr. Jaggers put the handkerchief back into his pocket without completing the usual performance, folded his arms, and looked with stern attention at me, though with an immovable face.
17 Herbert had told me on former occasions, and now reminded me, that he first knew Miss Clara Barley when she was completing her education at an establishment at Hammersmith, and that on her being recalled home to nurse her father, he and she had confided their affection to the motherly Mrs. Whimple, by whom it had been fostered and regulated with equal kindness and discretion, ever since.
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