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1  It is impossible to be gentler, Herbert.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
2  The impossibility of keeping him concealed in the chambers was self-evident.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
3  It was impossible to try him for that, and do otherwise than find him guilty.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
4  In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
5  It is impossible to turn this leaf of my life, without putting Bentley Drummle's name upon it; or I would, very gladly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
6  Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict's breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
8  It was impossible for me to avoid seeing that she cared to attract me; that she made herself winning, and would have won me even if the task had needed pains.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
9  That I could have been at our old church in my old church-going clothes, on the very last Sunday that ever was, seemed a combination of impossibilities, geographical and social, solar and lunar.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
10  At first, as I lay quiet on the sofa, I found it painfully difficult, I might say impossible, to get rid of the impression of the glare of the flames, their hurry and noise, and the fierce burning smell.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
11  The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV