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1  He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
2  There were other times when she would come to a sudden check in this tone and in all her many tones, and would seem to pity me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
3  There was an air of utter loneliness upon her, that would have moved me to pity though she had wilfully done me a deeper injury than I could charge her with.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
4  You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
5  And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
6  While we stood in the hut, he stood before the fire looking thoughtfully at it, or putting up his feet by turns upon the hob, and looking thoughtfully at them as if he pitied them for their recent adventures.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
7  Still, Mrs. Pocket was in general the object of a queer sort of respectful pity, because she had not married a title; while Mr. Pocket was the object of a queer sort of forgiving reproach, because he had never got one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
8  Now, I too had so often thought it a pity, that, in the singular kind of quarrel with myself which I was always carrying on, I was half inclined to shed tears of vexation and distress when Biddy gave utterance to her sentiment and my own.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
9  Now, whether," pursued Herbert, "he had used the child's mother ill, or whether he had used the child's mother well, Provis doesn't say; but she had shared some four or five years of the wretched life he described to us at this fireside, and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L