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1  Though she looked steadily at me, I saw that she was rather confused.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
2  I was rather confused, thinking it must be out of the London fashion, but said yes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
3  This practical authority confused me very much by saying I had the arm of a blacksmith.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
4  I said confusedly that that was long ago, and that I knew no better then, and the like.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
5  But I, misled by the action, and confused by the occasion, shook hands with him with every testimony of warm affection.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
6  This diverts suspicion and confuses it; and for the same reason I recommended that, even if you came back last night, you should not go home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
7  Yet Estella was so inseparable from all my restlessness and disquiet of mind, that I really fell into confusion as to the limits of my own part in its production.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
8  There was something so remarkable in the increasing glare of Mr. Wopsle's eye, and he seemed to be turning so many things over in his mind and to grow so confused, that I could not make it out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
9  This caused great confusion on board the steamer, and I heard them calling to us, and heard the order given to stop the paddles, and heard them stop, but felt her driving down upon us irresistibly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
10  He looked about him in a confused way, as if he had lost his place in the book of his remembrance; and he turned his face to the fire, and spread his hands broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them on again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
11  Each of us would then refer to a confused heap of papers at his side, which had been thrown into drawers, worn into holes in pockets, half burnt in lighting candles, stuck for weeks into the looking-glass, and otherwise damaged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
12  It was furnished with fresh young remembrances too, and even at the same moment I fell into much the same confused division of mind between it and the better rooms to which I was going, as I had been in so often between the forge and Miss Havisham's, and Biddy and Estella.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
13  And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
14  And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII