1 It was past midnight when I crossed London Bridge.
2 It was past in a moment, and I listened again, and heard the footstep stumble in coming on.
3 You see, Pip," Joe pursued, as soon as he was past that danger, "Miss Havisham done the handsome thing by you.
4 But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.
5 In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
6 I walked past the fountain twice or thrice before I descended the steps that were between me and my rooms, but I was quite alone.
7 It was like pushing the chair itself back into the past, when we began the old slow circuit round about the ashes of the bridal feast.
8 At his particular request, I appointed to call for him at the Castle at half past eight on Monday morning, and so we parted for the time.
9 We agreed that it should be carried into execution, and that Provis should never recognize us if we came below Bridge, and rowed past Mill Pond Bank.
10 About midnight I got out of bed and went to Herbert, with the conviction that I had been asleep for four-and-twenty hours, and that Wednesday was past.
11 Estella looked at her for a moment with a kind of calm wonder, but was not otherwise disturbed; when the moment was past, she looked down at the fire again.
12 The schoolhouse where Biddy was mistress I had never seen; but, the little roundabout lane by which I entered the village, for quietness' sake, took me past it.
13 It was but for an instant that I seemed to struggle with a thousand mill-weirs and a thousand flashes of light; that instant past, I was taken on board the galley.
14 It was a little past midday when the four-horse stage-coach by which I was a passenger, got into the ravel of traffic frayed out about the Cross Keys, Wood Street, Cheapside, London.
15 Gargery had departed this life on Monday last at twenty minutes past six in the evening, and that my attendance was requested at the interment on Monday next at three o'clock in the afternoon.
16 As the night was fast falling, and as the moon, being past the full, would not rise early, we held a little council; a short one, for clearly our course was to lie by at the first lonely tavern we could find.