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1  I hope I know my poor grandpapa's position.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
2  There was some hope in this piece of wisdom, and it rather encouraged me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
3  I am rather bare here, but I hope you'll be able to make out tolerably well till Monday.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
4  Indeed, I go so far as to hope that I regarded myself while dressing as a species of savage young wolf or other wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
5  Some hopeful notion of seeing her, busily engaged in her daily duties, before she saw me, had been in my mind and was defeated.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
6  I hope and do not doubt it will be agreeable to see him, even though a gentleman, for you had ever a good heart, and he is a worthy, worthy man.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
7  I hope one remote cause of its firing may have been my consciousness that if I had known his errand, I should have given him more encouragement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
8  There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
9  And after I had sent them in, I could not keep away from the places where they were, but felt as if they were more hopeful and less desperate when I was near them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
10  I earnestly expressed my hope that he wouldn't, and held tighter to the tombstone on which he had put me; partly, to keep myself upon it; partly, to keep myself from crying.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
11  Here is a chicken had round from the Boar, here is a tongue had round from the Boar, here's one or two little things had round from the Boar, that I hope you may not despise.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
12  I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
13  My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
14  Well," said Joe, passing the poker into his left hand, that he might feel his whisker; and I had no hope of him whenever he took to that placid occupation; "your sister's a master-mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  Now, Handel," Herbert replied, in his gay, hopeful way, "it seems to me that in the despondency of the tender passion, we are looking into our gift-horse's mouth with a magnifying-glass.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
16  Putting on the best clothes I had, I went into town as early as I could hope to find the shops open, and presented myself before Mr. Trabb, the tailor, who was having his breakfast in the parlor behind his shop, and who did not think it worth his while to come out to me, but called me in to him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
17  I was nearly going away without the pie, but I was tempted to mount upon a shelf, to look what it was that was put away so carefully in a covered earthen ware dish in a corner, and I found it was the pie, and I took it in the hope that it was not intended for early use, and would not be missed for some time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
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