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1  Looking out of the towel, he caught my eye.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
2  There were traces of his gore in that spot, and I covered them with garden-mould from the eye of man.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
3  Now, Joe, examining this iron with a smith's eye, declared it to have been filed asunder some time ago.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
4  My eye had been caught by a gun with a brass-bound stock over the chimney-piece, and his eye had followed mine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
5  Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand, very like that exacted by wicket-keeping.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
6  The second greatest surprise I have ever had in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking up at me out of a black eye.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
8  Mr. Trabb never removed his stern eye from the boy until he had deposited number four on the counter and was at a safe distance again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  His arms and legs were like great pincushions of those shapes, and his attire disguised him absurdly; but I knew his half-closed eye at one glance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
10  I kept an eye on Orlick after that night, and, whenever circumstances were favorable to his dancing at Biddy, got before him to obscure that demonstration.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
11  Here, we found a gentleman with one eye, in a velveteen suit and knee-breeches, who wiped his nose with his sleeve on being interrupted in the perusal of the newspaper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
12  He was about to take another bite, and had just got his head on one side for a good purchase on it, when his eye fell on me, and he saw that my bread and butter was gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
13  You see, blacksmith," said the sergeant, who had by this time picked out Joe with his eye, "we have had an accident with these, and I find the lock of one of 'em goes wrong, and the coupling don't act pretty.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
14  I had grand ideas of the wealth and importance of Insurers of Ships in the City, and I began to think with awe of having laid a young Insurer on his back, blackened his enterprising eye, and cut his responsible head open.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
15  He looked across at me, and his eye appraised my watch-chain, and then he incidentally spat and said something to the other convict, and they laughed and slued themselves round with a clink of their coupling manacle, and looked at something else.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
16  The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with a magnifying-glass at his eye, and always inspected by a group of smock-frocks poring over him through the glass of his shop-window, seemed to be about the only person in the High Street whose trade engaged his attention.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
17  In these dialogues, my sister spoke to me as if she were morally wrenching one of my teeth out at every reference; while Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
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