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1  Mr. Pocket uttered a dismal groan.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
2  There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very dismal.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
3  At this dismal time we were evidently all possessed by the idea that we were followed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
4  At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
5  I sat down in the cliental chair placed over against Mr. Jaggers's chair, and became fascinated by the dismal atmosphere of the place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
6  Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  The dismal wind was muttering round the house, the tide was flapping at the shore, and I had a feeling that we were caged and threatened.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
8  When I had exhausted the garden and a greenhouse with nothing in it but a fallen-down grape-vine and some bottles, I found myself in the dismal corner upon which I had looked out of the window.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
9  Miss Havisham and I had never stopped all this time, but kept going round and round the room; now brushing against the skirts of the visitors, now giving them the whole length of the dismal chamber.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
10  Mr. Jaggers's room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically pitched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX