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1  "You mean stole," said the sergeant.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  I mean to explore those marshes for amusement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
3  "I don't mean any present at all, Joe," I interposed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
4  "Well, but I mean a four-footed Squeaker," said Mr. Pumblechook.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
5  When you say you love me, I know what you mean, as a form of words; but nothing more.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
6  So mean is extremity, that I sometimes sent him to Hyde Park corner to see what o'clock it was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
7  If you mean to take a present that I have it in charge to make you, speak out, and you shall have it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
8  If you have the heart to be so, you mean, Biddy," said I, in a virtuous and superior tone; "don't put it off upon me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  Tell him that, and he'll take it as a compliment," answered Wemmick; "he don't mean that you should know what to make of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
10  She managed our whole domestic life, and wonderfully too; but I did not mean that, though that made what I did mean more surprising.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
11  "First, over yonder;" he appeared to mean up the chimney, but I believe he intended to refer me to Liverpool; "and then in the City of London here."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
12  When I got into my little room, I sat down and took a long look at it, as a mean little room that I should soon be parted from and raised above, for ever.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
13  I had never seen any one then, and I have never seen any one since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a natural incapacity to do anything secret and mean.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
14  But I don't mean in that form, sir," returned Mr. Pumblechook, who had an objection to being interrupted; "I mean, enjoying himself with his elders and betters, and improving himself with their conversation, and rolling in the lap of luxury.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
15  In the mean time, Herbert and I were to consider separately what it would be best to say; whether we should devise any pretence of being afraid that he was under suspicious observation; or whether I, who had never yet been abroad, should propose an expedition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
16  Keeping Miss Havisham in the background at a great distance, I still hinted at the possibility of my having competed with him in his prospects, and at the certainty of his possessing a generous soul, and being far above any mean distrusts, retaliations, or designs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
17  Of the manner and extent to which he took our trumps into custody, and came out with mean little cards at the ends of hands, before which the glory of our Kings and Queens was utterly abased, I say nothing; nor, of the feeling that I had, respecting his looking upon us personally in the light of three very obvious and poor riddles that he had found out long ago.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
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