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1  Partickler when he see the ghost.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
2  Instantly the ghost passed once more and was gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
3  Sarah Pocket conducted me down, as if I were a ghost who must be seen out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
4  If that staid old house near the Green at Richmond should ever come to be haunted when I am dead, it will be haunted, surely, by my ghost.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
5  But I was no sooner in the passage than I extinguished my candle; for I saw Miss Havisham going along it in a ghostly manner, making a low cry.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
6  I doubt if a ghost could have been more terrible to me, up in those lonely rooms in the long evenings and long nights, with the wind and the rain always rushing by.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
7  A ghost could not have been taken and hanged on my account, and the consideration that he could be, and the dread that he would be, were no small addition to my horrors.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
8  The royal phantom also carried a ghostly manuscript round its truncheon, to which it had the appearance of occasionally referring, and that too, with an air of anxiety and a tendency to lose the place of reference which were suggestive of a state of mortality.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
9  If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
10  I was modestly wondering whether my utmost ingenuity would have enabled me to say anything that would have amused him half as much as this imaginary pleasantry, when I was startled by a sudden click in the wall on one side of the chimney, and the ghostly tumbling open of a little wooden flap with "JOHN" upon it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII