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1  That young man hears the words I speak.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
2  For this reason, I resolved to alight as soon as we touched the town, and put myself out of his hearing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
3  I have never been absolutely certain whether I uttered a shrill yell of terror, merely in spirit, or in the bodily hearing of the company.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
4  Now," said Wemmick, "questioning being over," which he emphasized and repeated for my guidance, "I come to what I did, after hearing what I heard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
5  When a man's alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin all night, but guns firing, and voices calling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
6  But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  Still, the coincidence of our being together on the coach, was sufficiently strange to fill me with a dread that some other coincidence might at any moment connect me, in his hearing, with my name.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
8  Her sight was disturbed, so that she saw objects multiplied, and grasped at visionary teacups and wineglasses instead of the realities; her hearing was greatly impaired; her memory also; and her speech was unintelligible.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
9  The privilege of calling her by her name and hearing her call me by mine became, under the circumstances an aggravation of my trials; and while I think it likely that it almost maddened her other lovers, I know too certainly that it almost maddened me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII