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1  Identity of Mr. Pip and friend confessed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
2  Reluctantly, I confessed myself quite unable to answer the question.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
3  Let me confess exactly with what feelings I looked forward to Joe's coming.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
4  I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
5  He had no occasion to say after that that he had conceived an aversion for my patron, neither had I occasion to confess my own.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
6  To confess the truth, I very heartily wished, and not for the first time, that I had had some other guardian of minor abilities.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
7  Having made this lunatic confession, I began to throw my torn-up grass into the river, as if I had some thoughts of following it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
8  Biddy was Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's granddaughter; I confess myself quiet unequal to the working out of the problem, what relation she was to Mr. Wopsle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
9  Perhaps I might have told Joe about the pale young gentleman, if I had not previously been betrayed into those enormous inventions to which I had confessed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
10  I alluded to the advantages I had derived in my first rawness and ignorance from his society, and I confessed that I feared I had but ill repaid them, and that he might have done better without me and my expectations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
11  Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice which he was uncommonly proud of; indeed it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman into fits; he himself confessed that if the Church was "thrown open," meaning to competition, he would not despair of making his mark in it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV