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1  Gentlemen," said Mr. Wopsle, "I am proud to see you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
2  "I think she is very proud," I replied, in a whisper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  She was proud and insulting, and you wanted to go away from her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
4  He married his second wife privately, because he was proud, and in course of time she died.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
5  It ain't that I am proud, but that I want to be right, as you shall never see me no more in these clothes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
6  He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
7  She had shown a proud impatience more than once before, and had rather endured that fierce affection than accepted or returned it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
8  And that it was a highly agreeable boast to both of us, and that we must both be very proud of it, was a conclusion quite established in his own mind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
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  While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
11  Those attractions in it, I had seen before; what I had never seen before, was the saddened, softened light of the once proud eyes; what I had never felt before was the friendly touch of the once insensible hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
12  Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice which he was uncommonly proud of; indeed it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman into fits; he himself confessed that if the Church was "thrown open," meaning to competition, he would not despair of making his mark in it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV