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1  You gave it to yourself; you gained it for yourself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
2  Now, Herbert," said I, "with reference to gaining some knowledge of his history.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
3  And it gained its point after all, for I saw it through the window within a few minutes, being nursed by little Jane.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
4  I was slow to gain strength, but I did slowly and surely become less weak, and Joe stayed with me, and I fancied I was little Pip again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
5  My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
6  In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
7  I therefore got up and put on my clothes, and went out across the yard into the long stone passage, designing to gain the outer courtyard and walk there for the relief of my mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII