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1  And my terror was greatest of all when I found no figure there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
2  When I got into the courtyard, I found Estella waiting with the keys.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  I entered, therefore, and found myself in a pretty large room, well lighted with wax candles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
4  The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
5  He had been at his books when I had found myself staring at him, and I now saw that he was inky.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
6  I followed the candle down, as I had followed the candle up, and she stood it in the place where we had found it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference to Mrs. Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
8  Then I put the fastenings as I had found them, opened the door at which I had entered when I ran home last night, shut it, and ran for the misty marshes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
9  My reason is to be found in what took place in Mr. Pumblechook's parlor: where, on our presenting ourselves, my sister sat in conference with that detested seedsman.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
10  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
11  I found the same gate open, and I explored the garden, and even looked in at the windows of the detached house; but my view was suddenly stopped by the closed shutters within, and all was lifeless.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
12  Never questioning for a moment that the house was now empty, I looked in at another window, and found myself, to my great surprise, exchanging a broad stare with a pale young gentleman with red eyelids and light hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
13  Here, the daylight reappeared, and I found myself in a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was formed by a detached dwelling-house, that looked as if it had once belonged to the manager or head clerk of the extinct brewery.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
14  And I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small of the back, and having my face ignominiously shoved against the kitchen wall, because I did not answer those questions at sufficient length.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
15  To-night, Joe several times invited me, by the display of his fast diminishing slice, to enter upon our usual friendly competition; but he found me, each time, with my yellow mug of tea on one knee, and my untouched bread and butter on the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
16  I was nearly going away without the pie, but I was tempted to mount upon a shelf, to look what it was that was put away so carefully in a covered earthen ware dish in a corner, and I found it was the pie, and I took it in the hope that it was not intended for early use, and would not be missed for some time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
17  It being Saturday night, I found the landlord looking rather grimly at these records; but as my business was with Joe and not with him, I merely wished him good evening, and passed into the common room at the end of the passage, where there was a bright large kitchen fire, and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
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