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1  It was a dry cold night, and the wind blew keenly, and the frost was white and hard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
2  He put a foot up to the bars, to dry and warm it, and the wet boot began to steam; but, he neither looked at it, nor at the fire, but steadily looked at me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
3  Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home, so that we stood shivering in the back-yard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
4  Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlor.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
5  He turned his eyes on Mr. Jaggers whenever he raised them from the table, and was as dry and distant to me as if there were twin Wemmicks, and this was the wrong one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
6  The boatswain, unmanned for the first time, respectfully dried his eyes on the Jack, and then cheering up, and addressing Mr. Wopsle as Your Honor, solicited permission to take him by the fin.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
7  We had all shaken hands cordially, and neither Herbert's eyes nor mine were quite dry, when I saw a four-oared galley shoot out from under the bank but a little way ahead of us, and row out into the same track.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
8  It had an unusually large jack-towel on a roller inside the door, and he would wash his hands, and wipe them and dry them all over this towel, whenever he came in from a police court or dismissed a client from his room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
9  In his lay capacity, he persisted in sitting down in the damp to such an insane extent, that when his coat was taken off to be dried at the kitchen fire, the circumstantial evidence on his trousers would have hanged him, if it had been a capital offence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
10  Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry, brown, corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut-shells, and a large mouth like a cat's without the whiskers, supported this position by saying, "No, indeed, my dear."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
11  The other, always working and working his dry lips and turning his eyes restlessly about him far and near, did at last turn them for a moment on the speaker, with the words, "You are not much to look at," and with a half-taunting glance at the bound hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
12  Casting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
13  Mr. Jaggers never laughed; but he wore great bright creaking boots, and, in poising himself on these boots, with his large head bent down and his eyebrows joined together, awaiting an answer, he sometimes caused the boots to creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
14  Although I had sent Mr. Jaggers a brief account of the accident as soon as I had arrived in town, yet I had to give him all the details now; and the speciality of the occasion caused our talk to be less dry and hard, and less strictly regulated by the rules of evidence, than it had been before.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI