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1  The dinner hour was half-past one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
2  After an hour or so of this travelling, we came to a rough wooden hut and a landing-place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
3  At the hour and minute," said Herbert, nodding, "at which she afterwards stopped all the clocks.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
4  And to this hour I have not the faintest notion what he meant, or what joke he thought I had made.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
5  He was to come away in an hour or two to attend me to Hammersmith, and I was to wait about for him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
6  Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  But if he had looked at me for an hour or for a day, I could not have remembered his face ever afterwards, as having been more attentive.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
8  It was with a depressed heart that I walked in the starlight for an hour and more, about the courtyard, and about the brewery, and about the ruined garden.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
9  I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
10  As often as I was restless in the night, and that was every quarter of an hour, I reflected what an unkindness, what an injury, what an injustice, Biddy had done me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
11  For an hour or more, I remained too stunned to think; and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
12  Drummle and I then sat snorting at one another for an hour, while the Grove engaged in indiscriminate contradiction, and finally the promotion of good feeling was declared to have gone ahead at an amazing rate.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
13  Biddy was astir so early to get my breakfast, that, although I did not sleep at the window an hour, I smelt the smoke of the kitchen fire when I started up with a terrible idea that it must be late in the afternoon.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
14  But after I had had my new suit on some half an hour, and had gone through an immensity of posturing with Mr. Pumblechook's very limited dressing-glass, in the futile endeavor to see my legs, it seemed to fit me better.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
15  There was a delicious sense of cleaning-up and making a quiet pause before going on in life afresh, in our village on Saturday nights, which stimulated Joe to dare to stay out half an hour longer on Saturdays than at other times.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
16  Mr. Pocket, Junior's, idea of Shortly was not mine, for I had nearly maddened myself with looking out for half an hour, and had written my name with my finger several times in the dirt of every pane in the window, before I heard footsteps on the stairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
17  All being made ready with much labor, and the hour come, the sultan was aroused in the dead of the night, and the sharpened axe that was to sever the rope from the great iron ring was put into his hand, and he struck with it, and the rope parted and rushed away, and the ceiling fell.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
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