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1  That is his employer, gentlemen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
2  At half-past nine, gentlemen," said he, "we must break up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
3  Thus, Bentley Drummle had come to Mr. Pocket when he was a head taller than that gentleman, and half a dozen heads thicker than most gentlemen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
4  She gave me to understand on the stairs, that it was a blow to dear Mrs. Pocket that dear Mr. Pocket should be under the necessity of receiving gentlemen to read with him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
5  It was not with me then, as it was in later life, when I fell into the society of the Passions, and compared them with Collins and Wopsle, rather to the disadvantage of both gentlemen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
6  "I am glad to have your approbation, gentlemen," said Mr. Waldengarver, with an air of dignity, in spite of his being ground against the wall at the time, and holding on by the seat of the chair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
7  He was not indifferent, for he told me that he hoped to live to see his gentleman one of the best of gentlemen in a foreign country; he was not disposed to be passive or resigned, as I understood it; but he had no notion of meeting danger half way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
8  In a back room, a high-shouldered man with a face-ache tied up in dirty flannel, who was dressed in old black clothes that bore the appearance of having been waxed, was stooping over his work of making fair copies of the notes of the other two gentlemen, for Mr. Jaggers's own use.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
9  When he had at last done and had appointed to send the articles to Mr. Pumblechook's on the Thursday evening, he said, with his hand upon the parlor lock, "I know, sir, that London gentlemen cannot be expected to patronize local work, as a rule; but if you would give me a turn now and then in the quality of a townsman, I should greatly esteem it."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX