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1  It won't lower your opinion of Mr. Jaggers's powers.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
2  Why yes," said Joe, lowering his voice, "he's left the Church and went into the playacting.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
3  He had rolled a handkerchief round his head, and his face was set and lowering in his sleep.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
4  And I think he added in a lower growl, that we might both go to the devil and shake ourselves.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
5  Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
6  When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
7  To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
8  Well, Pip," said Joe, taking up the poker, and settling himself to his usual occupation when he was thoughtful, of slowly raking the fire between the lower bars; "I'll tell you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
9  By imperceptible degrees, as the tide ran out, we lost more and more of the nearer woods and hills, and dropped lower and lower between the muddy banks, but the tide was yet with us when we were off Gravesend.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
10  All that water-side region of the upper and lower Pool below Bridge was unknown ground to me; and when I struck down by the river, I found that the spot I wanted was not where I had supposed it to be, and was anything but easy to find.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
11  It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many little drawers in his shop; and I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
12  I was fully old enough now to be apprenticed to Joe; and when Joe sat with the poker on his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my sister would so distinctly construe that innocent action into opposition on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his hands, shake him, and put it away.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII