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1  "Of her having the pleasure," I added.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
2  My pleasure 'ull be fur to see him do it.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
3  A pleasure's a pleasure all the world over.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
4  With pleasure," said he, "though I venture to prophesy that you'll want very few hints.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
5  I liked it for a few moments, but she flattered me so very grossly that the pleasure was soon over.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
6  He replied that it would give him much pleasure, and that he would expect me at the office at six o'clock.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
7  All this made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
8  I stammered something about the pleasure I felt in seeing her again, and about my having looked forward to it, for a long, long time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
9  As I lay in bed looking at him, it made me, in my weak state, cry again with pleasure to see the pride with which he set about his letter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
10  Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
11  They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
12  Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
13  I was looking at her with pleasure and admiration, when suddenly the growl swelled into a roar again, and a frightful bumping noise was heard above, as if a giant with a wooden leg were trying to bore it through the ceiling to come at us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
14  At length, the thing being done, and he having that day entered Clarriker's House, and he having talked to me for a whole evening in a flush of pleasure and success, I did really cry in good earnest when I went to bed, to think that my expectations had done some good to somebody.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
15  They were brought in by Flopson and Millers, much as though those two non-commissioned officers had been recruiting somewhere for children and had enlisted these, while Mrs. Pocket looked at the young Nobles that ought to have been as if she rather thought she had had the pleasure of inspecting them before, but didn't quite know what to make of them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII