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1  The last word was flung at the boy, who had not the least notion what it meant.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
2  According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
3  And to this hour I have not the faintest notion what he meant, or what joke he thought I had made.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
4  Still, I knew that there was cause for alarm, and I could not get rid of the notion of being watched.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
5  I became imbued with the notion on that first occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what means.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
6  Some hopeful notion of seeing her, busily engaged in her daily duties, before she saw me, had been in my mind and was defeated.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
7  I had looked into my affairs so often, that I had thoroughly destroyed any slight notion I might ever have had of their bearings.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
8  Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
9  I have a notion of firing eighty-two times, if the neighborhood shouldn't complain, and that cannon of mine should prove equal to the pressure.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
10  Whenever I fell asleep, I awoke with the notion I had had in the sluice-house, that a long time had elapsed and the opportunity to save him was gone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
11  Yes, perhaps I ought to mention," said Herbert, who had become curiously crestfallen and meek, since we entered on the interesting theme, "that she is rather below my mother's nonsensical family notions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
12  Mr. Pocket being justly celebrated for giving most excellent practical advice, and for having a clear and sound perception of things and a highly judicious mind, I had some notion in my heart-ache of begging him to accept my confidence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
13  He was not indifferent, for he told me that he hoped to live to see his gentleman one of the best of gentlemen in a foreign country; he was not disposed to be passive or resigned, as I understood it; but he had no notion of meeting danger half way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
14  From this last speech I derived the notion that Miss Havisham, for some reason or no reason, had not taken him into her confidence as to her designing me for Estella; that he resented this, and felt a jealousy about it; or that he really did object to that scheme, and would have nothing to do with it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
15  Biddy nodded her head thoughtfully at the fire as she took up her work again, and said she would be very particular; and Joe, still detaining his knees, said, "Ay, ay, I'll be ekervally partickler, Pip;" and then they congratulated me again, and went on to express so much wonder at the notion of my being a gentleman that I didn't half like it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII