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1  Everybody, myself excepted, said no, with confidence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  We interchanged that confidence without shaping a syllable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
3  I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
4  I am glad of one thing," said Biddy, "and that is, that you have felt you could give me your confidence, Pip.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
5  By degrees he fell to reposing such great confidence in me, as to ask my advice in reference to his own affairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
6  The accuracy of these recitals was sufficiently obvious to me, to give me great confidence in Joe's information.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
7  I represented myself as being surely worthy of some little confidence from him, in return for the confidence I had just now imparted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
8  Then I bethought me of a crutch, the shape being much the same, and I borrowed one in the village, and displayed it to my sister with considerable confidence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
9  In my confidence in my own resources, I would willingly have taken Herbert's expenses on myself; but Herbert was proud, and I could make no such proposal to him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
10  As confidence was out of the question with The Avenger in the hall, which could merely be regarded in the light of an antechamber to the keyhole, I sent him to the Play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
11  The fear of losing Joe's confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chimney corner at night staring drearily at my forever lost companion and friend, tied up my tongue.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
12  Joe and I being fellow-sufferers, and having confidences as such, Joe imparted a confidence to me, the moment I raised the latch of the door and peeped in at him opposite to it, sitting in the chimney corner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
13  In the infinite meaning of his reply and his boundless confidence in his views, the Jack took one of his bloated shoes off, looked into it, knocked a few stones out of it on the kitchen floor, and put it on again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
14  Mr. Pocket being justly celebrated for giving most excellent practical advice, and for having a clear and sound perception of things and a highly judicious mind, I had some notion in my heart-ache of begging him to accept my confidence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
15  When we came to the river-side and sat down on the bank, with the water rippling at our feet, making it all more quiet than it would have been without that sound, I resolved that it was a good time and place for the admission of Biddy into my inner confidence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
16  He would sit and talk to me in the old confidence, and with the old simplicity, and in the old unassertive protecting way, so that I would half believe that all my life since the days of the old kitchen was one of the mental troubles of the fever that was gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
17  From this last speech I derived the notion that Miss Havisham, for some reason or no reason, had not taken him into her confidence as to her designing me for Estella; that he resented this, and felt a jealousy about it; or that he really did object to that scheme, and would have nothing to do with it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
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