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1  Now," he pursued, "concerning Miss Havisham.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
2  Well, sir," pursued Joe, "this is how it were.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
3  Now, Mr. Pip," pursued the lawyer, "I address the rest of what I have to say, to you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
4  Herbert assented to all this, and we went out immediately after breakfast to pursue our investigations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
5  Biddy," pursued Joe, "when I got home and asked her fur to write the message to you, a little hung back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVII
6  You see, Pip," Joe pursued, as soon as he was past that danger, "Miss Havisham done the handsome thing by you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
7  The direction that I took was not that in which my old home lay, nor that in which we had pursued the convicts.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
8  It revived my utmost indignation to find that she was still pursued by this fellow, and I felt inveterate against him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
9  Mr. Jaggers was for her," pursued Wemmick, with a look full of meaning, "and worked the case in a way quite astonishing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
10  I want," she said, "to pursue that subject you mentioned to me when you were last here, and to show you that I am not all stone.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
11  Saying which he went out in disdain; and the landlord, having no one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
12  This friend," I pursued, "is trying to get on in commercial life, but has no money, and finds it difficult and disheartening to make a beginning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
13  Herbert, who had been looking at the fire and pondering, here said that something had come into his thoughts arising out of Wemmick's suggestion, which it might be worth while to pursue.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
14  Then, he blessed me and stood waving his hand to me until I had passed the crook in the road; and then I turned into a field and had a long nap under a hedge before I pursued my way home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
15  My rapid mind pursued him to the town, made a picture of the street with him in it, and contrasted its lights and life with the lonely marsh and the white vapor creeping over it, into which I should have dissolved.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
16  The imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature he had impiously made, was not more wretched than I, pursued by the creature who had made me, and recoiling from him with a stronger repulsion, the more he admired me and the fonder he was of me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
17  Now, whether," pursued Herbert, "he had used the child's mother ill, or whether he had used the child's mother well, Provis doesn't say; but she had shared some four or five years of the wretched life he described to us at this fireside, and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
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