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1  As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
2  My heart was deeply and most deservedly humbled as I mused over the fire for an hour or more.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
3  The two men looked at one another as Mr. Jaggers waved them behind again, and humbly fell back and were heard no more.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
4  The very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
5  So, the unfortunate Mike very humbly withdrew, and Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick appeared to have re-established their good understanding, and went to work again with an air of refreshment upon them as if they had just had lunch.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
6  The nooks of ruin where the old monks had once had their refectories and gardens, and where the strong walls were now pressed into the service of humble sheds and stables, were almost as silent as the old monks in their graves.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
7  The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came back, that I would tell her how I had lost all I once hoped for, that I would remind her of our old confidences in my first unhappy time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
8  She watched his countenance as if she were particularly wishful to be assured that he took kindly to his reception, she showed every possible desire to conciliate him, and there was an air of humble propitiation in all she did, such as I have seen pervade the bearing of a child towards a hard master.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI