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1  He gravely touched his lips with his forefinger.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
2  I held her hand to my lips some lingering moments, and so I left her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
3  She stretched out her hand, and I went down on my knee and put it to my lips.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
4  He grasped them heartily, raised them to his lips, kissed them, and still held them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  Biddy held one of my hands to her lips, and Joe's restoring touch was on my shoulder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
6  Again he took both my hands and put them to his lips, while my blood ran cold within me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
7  But as he sat gloating over me, I was supported by a scornful detestation of him that sealed my lips.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
8  Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
9  No one remained now but the excitable Jew, who had already raised the skirts of Mr. Jaggers's coat to his lips several times.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
10  He brought the bottle to his lips, and took a fiery drink from it; and I smelt the strong spirits that I saw flash into his face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
11  With a last faint effort, which would have been powerless but for my yielding to it and assisting it, he raised my hand to his lips.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
12  When it was given him, he drank his Majesty's health and compliments of the season, and took it all at a mouthful and smacked his lips.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
13  Biddy looked down at her child, and put its little hand to her lips, and then put the good matronly hand with which she had touched it into mine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
14  As I put my glass to my lips, he glanced with surprise at the end of his neckerchief, dropping from his mouth when he opened it, and stretched out his hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
15  For myself, I found that I was expressing my tendency to lavish expenditure, and to patronize Herbert, and to boast of my great prospects, before I quite knew that I had opened my lips.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
16  I strained my sight upon the sparks that fell among the tinder, and upon which he breathed and breathed, match in hand, but I could only see his lips, and the blue point of the match; even those but fitfully.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
17  The other, always working and working his dry lips and turning his eyes restlessly about him far and near, did at last turn them for a moment on the speaker, with the words, "You are not much to look at," and with a half-taunting glance at the bound hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
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