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1  This is a pretty pleasure-ground, sir.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
2  They'd say," returned my sister, curtly, "pretty well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
3  I didn't see you, but I must have been pretty close behind you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
4  I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
5  As I keep the cash," Mr. Wemmick observed, "we shall most likely meet pretty often.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
6  I entered, therefore, and found myself in a pretty large room, well lighted with wax candles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  That's my life pretty much, down to such times as I got shipped off, arter Pip stood my friend.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
8  The soldiers were in front of us, extending into a pretty wide line with an interval between man and man.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
9  They're pretty well known to be out on the marshes still, and they won't try to get clear of 'em before dusk.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
10  She was so quiet, and had such an orderly, good, and pretty way with her, that I did not like the thought of making her cry again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
11  While he was gone, I sat down on my usual stool and looked vacantly at my sister, feeling pretty sure that the man would not be there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
12  It had been a fine bright day, but had become foggy as the sun dropped, and I had had to feel my way back among the shipping, pretty carefully.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
13  She had her back towards me, and held her pretty brown hair spread out in her two hands, and never looked round, and passed out of my view directly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
14  Miss Havisham beckoned her to come close, and took up a jewel from the table, and tried its effect upon her fair young bosom and against her pretty brown hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
15  For, we always ran into new debt immediately, to the full extent of the margin, and sometimes, in the sense of freedom and solvency it imparted, got pretty far on into another margin.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
16  You see, blacksmith," said the sergeant, who had by this time picked out Joe with his eye, "we have had an accident with these, and I find the lock of one of 'em goes wrong, and the coupling don't act pretty.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
17  When I had taken leave of the pretty, gentle, dark-eyed girl, and of the motherly woman who had not outlived her honest sympathy with a little affair of true love, I felt as if the Old Green Copper Ropewalk had grown quite a different place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
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