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1  The return he makes her, within my observation, is a very poor one.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
2  The poor lady was nearer Truth than she ever had been: which had much to do with it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
3  Age, especially when it strives to be self-reliant and cheerful, finds much consideration among the poor.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
4  Even the power of restlessness was gone, except from the poor head, which could just turn from side to side.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
5  They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
6  And, Thomas, it is really shameful, with my poor head continually wearing me out, that a boy brought up as you have been, and whose education has cost what yours has, should be found encouraging his sister to wonder, when he knows his father has expressly said that she is not to do it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
7  I, who came here to inform the father of the poor girl, Jupe, that she could not be received at the school any more, in consequence of there being practical objections, into which I need not enter, to the reception there of the children of persons so employed, am prepared in these altered circumstances to make a proposal.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V