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1  I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
2  According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
3  To whom my sister, more for the relief of her own mind than for the gratification of his, related my pretended experiences.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
4  Pip," said he, "we won't talk about 'poor dreams;' you know more about such things than I, having much fresher experience of that kind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
5  I never could have believed it without experience, but as Joe and Biddy became more at their cheerful ease again, I became quite gloomy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
6  It struck me as a singular implication that you couldn't be out of a counting-house, you know, and look about you; but I silently deferred to his experience.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
7  Of course I had no experience of a London summer day, and my spirits may have been oppressed by the hot exhausted air, and by the dust and grit that lay thick on everything.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
8  But I saw him collapse as his master rubbed me out with his hands, and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  The book itself had the appearance of having been stolen from some court of justice, and perhaps his knowledge of its antecedents, combined with his own experience in that wise, gave him a reliance on its powers as a sort of legal spell or charm.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
10  I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII