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1  The window indicated was the office window.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
2  No; the office is one thing, and private life is another.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
3  The governor stepped aside, and beckoned the officer away.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
4  So the pocket-book which had once been in my hands passed into the officer's.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
5  The officer who steered the galley gave the same account of their going overboard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
6  You can take a hackney-coach at the stage-coach office in London, and come straight to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
7  Biddy's first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty that had completely vanquished me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
8  He replied that it would give him much pleasure, and that he would expect me at the office at six o'clock.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
9  I dropped into the office to ask if Mr. Jaggers had come in yet, and I found he had not, and I strolled out again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
10  When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
11  Without further interruption, we reached the front office, where we found the clerk and the man in velveteen with the fur cap.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
12  Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
13  A Custum 'Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons," said the Jack, repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt, "when they comes betwixt him and his own light.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
14  Nobody doubted it; but Compeyson, who had meant to depose to it, was tumbling on the tides, dead, and it happened that there was not at that time any prison officer in London who could give the required evidence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
15  He was taken to the Police Court next day, and would have been immediately committed for trial, but that it was necessary to send down for an old officer of the prison-ship from which he had once escaped, to speak to his identity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
16  When I asked this officer's permission to change the prisoner's wet clothes by purchasing any spare garments I could get at the public-house, he gave it readily: merely observing that he must take charge of everything his prisoner had about him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
17  Seeing, or fancying, that I was suspected of an intention of carrying poison to him, I asked to be searched before I sat down at his bedside, and told the officer who was always there, that I was willing to do anything that would assure him of the singleness of my designs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
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