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1  I got your letter and destroyed it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
2  You say they are marks of finger-nails, and you set up the hypothesis that she destroyed her child.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
3  For anything we know, she may have destroyed her child, and the child in clinging to her may have scratched her hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
4  I had looked into my affairs so often, that I had thoroughly destroyed any slight notion I might ever have had of their bearings.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
5  In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
6  I'll go round to the others in the course of the day and destroy the notes," said Wemmick; "it's a good rule never to leave documentary evidence if you can help it, because you don't know when it may be put in.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
7  Not long before, I had read in the newspapers, how a gentleman unknown had come to the Hummums in the night, and had gone to bed, and had destroyed himself, and had been found in the morning weltering in blood.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV