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1  His mouth was such a post-office of a mouth that he had a mechanical appearance of smiling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
2  We had got to the top of Holborn Hill before I knew that it was merely a mechanical appearance, and that he was not smiling at all.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
3  But it was very pleasant to see the pride with which he hoisted it up and made it fast; smiling as he did so, with a relish and not merely mechanically.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
4  When this horrible din had lasted a certain time, it mechanically awoke Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, who staggered at a boy fortuitously, and pulled his ears.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
5  My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
6  On Wemmick's return from working these mechanical appliances, I expressed the great admiration with which I regarded them, and he said, "Well, you know, they're both pleasant and useful to the Aged."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
7  It is so difficult to become clearly possessed of the contents of almost any letter, in a violent hurry, that I had to read this mysterious epistle again twice, before its injunction to me to be secret got mechanically into my mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
8  Miss Skiffins's composure while she did this was one of the most remarkable sights I have ever seen, and if I could have thought the act consistent with abstraction of mind, I should have deemed that Miss Skiffins performed it mechanically.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
9  Yielding to it in the same mechanical kind of way, I left a note in pencil for Herbert, telling him that as I should be so soon going away, I knew not for how long, I had decided to hurry down and back, to ascertain for myself how Miss Havisham was faring.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
10  Miss Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practise on when no other practice was at hand; those were the first smarts I had.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX