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1  But they wouldn't leave me alone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
2  On the whole, I resolved to leave the Avenger behind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
3  I had not considered how I should take leave of her; it came naturally to me at the moment to do this.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
4  He would call at Barnard's Hotel Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, when if not agreeable please leave word.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
5  That Colonel durst no more take leave of him, than that turnkey durst ask him his intentions respecting a case.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
6  We never should have got leave to go, I am sure, but for Mrs. Joe's curiosity to know all about it and how it ended.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
7  I had not told him exactly when I meant to leave, and was not likely to shake hands with him again before departing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
8  When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
9  Still in that attitude he said, with a hollow voice, "Good night, Mr. Pip," when I deemed it advisable to go to bed and leave him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
10  As the door was not yet shut, I thought I would leave Herbert there for a moment, and run up stairs again to say a word to my guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
11  I was to leave our village at five in the morning, carrying my little hand-portmanteau, and I had told Joe that I wished to walk away all alone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
12  "I am afraid you won't leave any of it for him," said I, timidly; after a silence during which I had hesitated as to the politeness of making the remark.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
13  O dear good Joe, whom I was so ready to leave and so unthankful to, I see you again, with your muscular blacksmith's arm before your eyes, and your broad chest heaving, and your voice dying away.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
14  On his asking me if I was satisfied with the ground, and on my replying Yes, he begged my leave to absent himself for a moment, and quickly returned with a bottle of water and a sponge dipped in vinegar.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
15  We played until nine o'clock, and then it was arranged that when Estella came to London I should be forewarned of her coming and should meet her at the coach; and then I took leave of her, and touched her and left her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
16  I forget in detail what they were, but I have a general recollection that he was to begin with reviving the Drama, and to end with crushing it; inasmuch as his decease would leave it utterly bereft and without a chance or hope.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
17  The sergeant took a polite leave of the ladies, and parted from Mr. Pumblechook as from a comrade; though I doubt if he were quite as fully sensible of that gentleman's merits under arid conditions, as when something moist was going.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
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