Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXVII
2 Instantly the ghost passed once more and was gone.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXIX
3 Sarah Pocket conducted me down, as if I were a ghost who must be seen out.
Great ExpectationsBy 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 ExpectationsBy 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 ExpectationsBy 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 ExpectationsBy 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 ExpectationsBy 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 ExpectationsBy 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 ExpectationsBy 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 ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXVII