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1  It was agreed to be done; and a most melancholy day I passed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
2  There was a melancholy wind, and the marshes were very dismal.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
3  I shall think of it with a melancholy satisfaction when I wake up in the night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
4  "Don't be cheeky, Jack," remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
5  We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
6  As he imparted this melancholy circumstance to Wemmick, Mr. Jaggers standing magisterially before the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike's eye happened to twinkle with a tear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
7  To the present hour, the weary western streets of London on a cold, dusty spring night, with their ranges of stern, shut-up mansions, and their long rows of lamps, are melancholy to me from this association.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
8  And Mr. Jaggers made not me alone intensely melancholy, because, after he was gone, Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
9  There was the red sun, on the low level of the shore, in a purple haze, fast deepening into black; and there was the solitary flat marsh; and far away there were the rising grounds, between which and us there seemed to be no life, save here and there in the foreground a melancholy gull.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV