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1  It plaited itself into whatever I thought of, as a bodily pain would have done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
2  The allusion made me spring up; though I dropped again from the pain in my arm.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
3  I dare say I should have felt a pain in my liver, too, if I had known where it was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
4  Not only were my arms pulled close to my sides, but the pressure on my bad arm caused me exquisite pain.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
5  His breathing became more difficult and painful as the night drew on, and often he could not repress a groan.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
6  He nodded when I said the subject was painful to me, clapped me on the back, put round the wine again, and went on with his dinner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
7  As I walked on to the hotel, I felt that a dread, much exceeding the mere apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition, made me tremble.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
8  After an interval of suspense on my part that was quite enthralling and almost painful, I saw his hand appear on the other side of Miss Skiffins.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
9  This pain of the mind was much harder to strive against than any bodily pain I suffered; and Herbert, seeing that, did his utmost to hold my attention engaged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
10  Which was, I suppose, as false a declaration as ever was made; for I was inwardly crying for her then, and I know what I know of the pain she cost me afterwards.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
11  Her reverting to this tone as if our association were forced upon us, and we were mere puppets, gave me pain; but everything in our intercourse did give me pain.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
12  For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favor to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
13  Herbert got a large bottle of stuff for my arm; and by dint of having this stuff dropped over it all the night through, I was just able to bear its pain on the journey.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
14  My left arm was a good deal burned to the elbow, and, less severely, as high as the shoulder; it was very painful, but the flames had set in that direction, and I felt thankful it was no worse.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
15  Faint and sick with the pain of my injured arm, bewildered by the surprise, and yet conscious how easily this threat could be put in execution, I desisted, and tried to ease my arm were it ever so little.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
16  Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
17  No one but themselves and Mrs. Coiler the toady neighbor showed any interest in this part of the conversation, and it appeared to me that it was painful to Herbert; but it promised to last a long time, when the page came in with the announcement of a domestic affliction.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
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