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1  We passed the finger-post, and held straight on to the churchyard.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  I was passing out without looking at her, when she touched me with a taunting hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  Joe had got his coat and waistcoat and cravat off, and his leather apron on, and passed into the forge.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
4  The few who were passing passed on their several ways, and the street was empty when I turned back into the Temple.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
5  In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
6  The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
7  She had her back towards me, and held her pretty brown hair spread out in her two hands, and never looked round, and passed out of my view directly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
8  It was not at all expressed to me that he even comprehended my intention, for he gave me a look that I did not understand, and it all passed in a moment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
9  I only wondered for the passing moment, as I stopped at the door and looked back, under what altered circumstances I should next see those rooms, if ever.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
10  She gave me a triumphant glance in passing me, as if she rejoiced that my hands were so coarse and my boots were so thick, and she opened the gate, and stood holding it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
11  Well," said Joe, passing the poker into his left hand, that he might feel his whisker; and I had no hope of him whenever he took to that placid occupation; "your sister's a master-mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
12  Herbert would often come to Hammersmith when I was there, and I think at those seasons his father would occasionally have some passing perception that the opening he was looking for, had not appeared yet.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
13  Nothing less than the frosty light of the cheerful sky, the sight of people passing beyond the bars of the court-yard gate, and the reviving influence of the rest of the bread and meat and beer, would have brought me round.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
14  It was pleasant and quiet, out there with the sails on the river passing beyond the earthwork, and sometimes, when the tide was low, looking as if they belonged to sunken ships that were still sailing on at the bottom of the water.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
15  Following the wall of the jail, I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden the noise of passing vehicles; and from this, and from the quantity of people standing about smelling strongly of spirits and beer, I inferred that the trials were on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
16  If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
17  The sun was striking in at the great windows of the court, through the glittering drops of rain upon the glass, and it made a broad shaft of light between the two-and-thirty and the Judge, linking both together, and perhaps reminding some among the audience how both were passing on, with absolute equality, to the greater Judgment that knoweth all things, and cannot err.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
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