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1  My appetite vanished instantly, and I knew no peace or rest until the day arrived.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
2  My lavish habits led his easy nature into expenses that he could not afford, corrupted the simplicity of his life, and disturbed his peace with anxieties and regrets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
3  The sky was blue, the larks were soaring high over the green corn, I thought all that countryside more beautiful and peaceful by far than I had ever known it to be yet.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
4  You did not gradually open your round childish eyes wider and wider to the discovery of that impostor of a woman who calculates her stores of peace of mind for when she wakes up in the night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
5  Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
6  For the beam across the parlor ceiling at Mill Pond Bank had then ceased to tremble under old Bill Barley's growls and was at peace, and Herbert had gone away to marry Clara, and I was left in sole charge of the Eastern Branch until he brought her back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
7  But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX