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1  I execute my instructions, and I am paid for doing so.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
2  You are to understand, first, that it is the request of the person from whom I take my instructions that you always bear the name of Pip.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
3  I am instructed to communicate to him," said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his finger at me sideways, "that he will come into a handsome property.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
4  The Jack at the Ship was instructed where the drowned man had gone down, and undertook to search for the body in the places where it was likeliest to come ashore.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
5  Mr. Jaggers's eyes retired a little deeper into his head when I handed him the tablets, but he presently handed them over to Wemmick, with instructions to draw the check for his signature.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
6  Your acceptance of it, and your observance of it as binding, is the only remaining condition that I am charged with, by the person from whom I take my instructions, and for whom I am not otherwise responsible.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
7  As it turned out, however, that he only wanted me for a dramatic lay-figure, to be contradicted and embraced and wept over and bullied and clutched and stabbed and knocked about in a variety of ways, I soon declined that course of instruction; though not until Mr. Wopsle in his poetic fury had severely mauled me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV