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1  On this hint we all rose to depart.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
2  It was the certainty of this fact that impelled me to offer the hint.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
3  Apart from any inclinations of my own, I understood Wemmick's hint now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
4  I begged Mr. Pumblechook to remember that nothing was to be ever said or hinted, on that point.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
5  Having thought of the matter with care, I approached my subject as if I had never hinted at it before.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
6  He never smoked so late, and it seemed to hint to me that he wanted comforting, for some reason or other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
7  But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
8  He appeared to me to have obscurely hinted in his letter at some distant idea he had of seeing you in England here.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
9  Rather alarmed by this summary action, I was for a little delay, and even hinted that our friend himself might be difficult to deal with.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
10  The morning hurry and flutter had been great; for, long and anxiously as I had waited for Wemmick, his hint had come like a surprise at last.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
11  I thought it best to hint, through the medium of a meditative look, that this might be occasioned by circumstances over which I had no control.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
12  But there was nothing to be done, saving to communicate to Wemmick what I had that night found out, and to remind him that we waited for his hint.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
13  I reminded him of the false hopes into which I had lapsed, the length of time they had lasted, and the discovery I had made: and I hinted at the danger that weighed upon my spirits.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
14  When we got back, he had the hardihood to tell me that he wished my sister could have known I had done her so much honor, and to hint that she would have considered it reasonably purchased at the price of her death.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
15  Yet he was as submissive to a word of advice as if he had been in constant terror; for, when we ran ashore to get some bottles of beer into the boat, and he was stepping out, I hinted that I thought he would be safest where he was, and he said.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
16  I further mentioned that as I had been brought up a blacksmith in a country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness, I would take it as a great kindness in him if he would give me a hint whenever he saw me at a loss or going wrong.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
17  Keeping Miss Havisham in the background at a great distance, I still hinted at the possibility of my having competed with him in his prospects, and at the certainty of his possessing a generous soul, and being far above any mean distrusts, retaliations, or designs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
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