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1  We both knew that I had but to propose anything, and he would consent.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
2  He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he called on my father to propose it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
3  He seemed so brave and innocent, that although I had not proposed the contest, I felt but a gloomy satisfaction in my victory.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
4  As Joe got on his coat, he mustered courage to propose that some of us should go down with the soldiers and see what came of the hunt.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
5  In my hunger for information, I made proposals to Mr. Wopsle to bestow some intellectual crumbs upon me, with which he kindly complied.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
6  I had not seen Mr. Wemmick for some weeks, when I thought I would write him a note and propose to go home with him on a certain evening.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
7  I had so much time to spare, that the proposal came as a relief, notwithstanding its irreconcilability with my latent desire to keep my eye on the coach-office.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
8  Thankee, Sir," returned Joe, evidently dispirited by the proposal, "since you are so kind as make chice of coffee, I will not run contrairy to your own opinions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
9  In my confidence in my own resources, I would willingly have taken Herbert's expenses on myself; but Herbert was proud, and I could make no such proposal to him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
10  I had always proposed to myself to get him well down the river in the boat; certainly well beyond Gravesend, which was a critical place for search or inquiry if suspicion were afoot.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
11  However, I proposed that he and I should walk away together to a distant point we could see, and that the boat should take us aboard there, or as near there as might prove feasible, at about noon.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
12  In the mean time, Herbert and I were to consider separately what it would be best to say; whether we should devise any pretence of being afraid that he was under suspicious observation; or whether I, who had never yet been abroad, should propose an expedition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
13  The truth was, that she had objected to me as an expensive companion who did Herbert no good, and that, when Herbert had first proposed to present me to her, she had received the proposal with such very moderate warmth, that Herbert had felt himself obliged to confide the state of the case to me, with a view to the lapse of a little time before I made her acquaintance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
14  The truth was, that she had objected to me as an expensive companion who did Herbert no good, and that, when Herbert had first proposed to present me to her, she had received the proposal with such very moderate warmth, that Herbert had felt himself obliged to confide the state of the case to me, with a view to the lapse of a little time before I made her acquaintance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV