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1  "We played with flags," I said.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
2  Howsever, the boy went there to play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
3  She wants this boy to go and play there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
4  By and by, I roused myself, and went to the play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
5  I had been afraid until then to say a word about the play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
6  I played the game to an end with Estella, and she beggared me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  No, ma'am, I am very sorry for you, and very sorry I can't play just now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
8  This changed the subject in an instant, and made us hurriedly resolve to go to the play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
9  I sometimes have sick fancies," she went on, "and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
10  So she sat, corpse-like, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
11  Leaving just room enough for the play of the oars, she kept alongside, drifting when we drifted, and pulling a stroke or two when we pulled.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
12  "This is a gay figure, Pip," said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
13  But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play at.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
14  Then, he melted into parental tenderness, and gave them a shilling apiece and told them to go and play; and then as they went out, with one very strong effort to lift himself up by the hair he dismissed the hopeless subject.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
15  As it was a raw evening, and I was cold, I thought I would comfort myself with dinner at once; and as I had hours of dejection and solitude before me if I went home to the Temple, I thought I would afterwards go to the play.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
16  Miserably I went to bed after all, and miserably thought of Estella, and miserably dreamed that my expectations were all cancelled, and that I had to give my hand in marriage to Herbert's Clara, or play Hamlet to Miss Havisham's Ghost, before twenty thousand people, without knowing twenty words of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
17  Flopson, by dint of doubling the baby at the joints like a Dutch doll, then got it safely into Mrs. Pocket's lap, and gave it the nut-crackers to play with; at the same time recommending Mrs. Pocket to take notice that the handles of that instrument were not likely to agree with its eyes, and sharply charging Miss Jane to look after the same.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
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