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1  This is the end of the first stage of Pip's expectations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
2  It is a present to you on this day, in earnest of your expectations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
3  I wavered again, and began to think here were greater expectations than my own.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
4  I would not have been the cause of that look of hers for all my expectations in a heap.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
5  You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
6  So imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expectations, that I looked in dismay at Mr. Wemmick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
7  That person is the person from whom you derive your expectations, and the secret is solely held by that person and by me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
8  As I had grown accustomed to my expectations, I had insensibly begun to notice their effect upon myself and those around me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
9  You must know that, although I have used the term 'expectations' more than once, you are not endowed with expectations only.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
10  Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
11  It was the only good thing I had done, and the only completed thing I had done, since I was first apprised of my great expectations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
12  But whether Joe knew how poor I was, and how my great expectations had all dissolved, like our own marsh mists before the sun, I could not understand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
13  It would all come out in good time, I observed, and in the meanwhile nothing was to be said, save that I had come into great expectations from a mysterious patron.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
14  That is to say, supposing I had had no expectations, and yet had had Estella to think of, I could not make out to my satisfaction that I should have done much better.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
15  I alluded to the advantages I had derived in my first rawness and ignorance from his society, and I confessed that I feared I had but ill repaid them, and that he might have done better without me and my expectations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
16  At length, the thing being done, and he having that day entered Clarriker's House, and he having talked to me for a whole evening in a flush of pleasure and success, I did really cry in good earnest when I went to bed, to think that my expectations had done some good to somebody.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
17  Miserably I went to bed after all, and miserably thought of Estella, and miserably dreamed that my expectations were all cancelled, and that I had to give my hand in marriage to Herbert's Clara, or play Hamlet to Miss Havisham's Ghost, before twenty thousand people, without knowing twenty words of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
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