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1  I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
2  I entered, therefore, and found myself in a pretty large room, well lighted with wax candles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  He took my chin in his large hand and turned up my face to have a look at me by the light of the candle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
4  Suddenly, he clapped his large hand on the housekeeper's, like a trap, as she stretched it across the table.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
5  Rather tall, of a lithe nimble figure, extremely pale, with large faded eyes, and a quantity of streaming hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
6  He had a large watch-chain, and strong black dots where his beard and whiskers would have been if he had let them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  Pip," said he, putting his large hand on my shoulder and moving me to the window, "I don't know one from the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
8  He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head, and a corresponding large hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
9  I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
10  As I was saying, Pip, it were my intentions to have had it cut over him; but poetry costs money, cut it how you will, small or large, and it were not done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
11  It had an unusually large jack-towel on a roller inside the door, and he would wash his hands, and wipe them and dry them all over this towel, whenever he came in from a police court or dismissed a client from his room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
12  We walked to town, my sister leading the way in a very large beaver bonnet, and carrying a basket like the Great Seal of England in plaited Straw, a pair of pattens, a spare shawl, and an umbrella, though it was a fine bright day.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
13  Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry, brown, corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut-shells, and a large mouth like a cat's without the whiskers, supported this position by saying, "No, indeed, my dear."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
14  Mr. Jaggers never laughed; but he wore great bright creaking boots, and, in poising himself on these boots, with his large head bent down and his eyebrows joined together, awaiting an answer, he sometimes caused the boots to creak, as if they laughed in a dry and suspicious way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
15  It being Saturday night, I found the landlord looking rather grimly at these records; but as my business was with Joe and not with him, I merely wished him good evening, and passed into the common room at the end of the passage, where there was a bright large kitchen fire, and where Joe was smoking his pipe in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
16  I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
17  Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice which he was uncommonly proud of; indeed it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman into fits; he himself confessed that if the Church was "thrown open," meaning to competition, he would not despair of making his mark in it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
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