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1  Imperceptibly I became conscious of a change in Biddy, however.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
2  Utterly preposterous as his cravat was, and as his collars were, I was conscious of a sort of dignity in the look.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
3  As I drew her down into her chair, I was conscious of a scent that I knew, and turning, saw my guardian in the room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
4  I fancied that I could detect in his manner a consciousness of this, and a purpose of always holding her in suspense.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
5  It seemed to be so; for, when I stopped speaking, many moments passed before she showed that she was conscious of the fact.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
6  I knew him before he gave me one of those aids, though, a moment before, I had not been conscious of remotely suspecting his identity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
7  At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
8  I am not so cunning, you see," I said, in answer, conscious that I reddened a little, "as that I could hide from you, even if I desired, that I do want something.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
9  I could see nothing of the room except the shining of the fire in the window-glass, but I stiffened in all my joints with the consciousness that I was under close inspection.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
10  He seemed to have more breathing business to do than another man, and to make more noise in doing it; and I was conscious of growing high-shouldered on one side, in my shrinking endeavors to fend him off.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
11  Faint and sick with the pain of my injured arm, bewildered by the surprise, and yet conscious how easily this threat could be put in execution, I desisted, and tried to ease my arm were it ever so little.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
12  Whether Mr. Trabb's local work would have sat more gracefully on him than on me, may be a question; but I am conscious that he carried off his rather old clothes much better than I carried off my new suit.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
13  Standing at this table, I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a black cloak and several yards of hatband, who was alternately stuffing himself, and making obsequious movements to catch my attention.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
14  We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  Difficult as it is in a large city to avoid the suspicion of being watched, when the mind is conscious of danger in that regard, I could not persuade myself that any of the people within sight cared about my movements.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
16  All the while knowing the madness of my heart to be so very mad and misplaced, that I was quite conscious it would have served my face right, if I had lifted it up by my hair, and knocked it against the pebbles as a punishment for belonging to such an idiot.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
17  Standing by for a little, while they were at work, I observed that the odd looks they had cast at one another were repeated several times: with this difference now, that each of them seemed suspicious, not to say conscious, of having shown himself in a weak and unprofessional light to the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
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