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1  It was of no use asking myself this question now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  Answer him one question, and he'll ask you a dozen directly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
3  I had begun by asking questions, and I was going to rob Mrs. Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
4  My thoughts strayed from that question as I looked disconsolately at the fire.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
5  Now lookee here," he said, "the question being whether you're to be let to live.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
6  She quite gloated on these questions and answers, so keen was her enjoyment of Sarah Pocket's jealous dismay.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
7  After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
8  When I reached home, my sister was very curious to know all about Miss Havisham's, and asked a number of questions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
9  It was not very polite to herself, I thought, to imply that I should be told lies by her even if I did ask questions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
10  My narrative finished, and their questions exhausted, I then produced Miss Havisham's authority to receive the nine hundred pounds for Herbert.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
11  People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
12  I was liberally paid for my old attendance here," I said, to soothe her, "in being apprenticed, and I have asked these questions only for my own information.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
13  Where I might go, what I might do, or when I might return, were questions utterly unknown to me; nor did I vex my mind with them, for it was wholly set on Provis's safety.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
14  But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play at.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  And I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small of the back, and having my face ignominiously shoved against the kitchen wall, because I did not answer those questions at sufficient length.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
16  But all this time, why I was not to go home, and what had happened at home, and when I should go home, and whether Provis was safe at home, were questions occupying my mind so busily, that one might have supposed there could be no more room in it for any other theme.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
17  If they had asked me any more questions, I should undoubtedly have betrayed myself, for I was even then on the point of mentioning that there was a balloon in the yard, and should have hazarded the statement but for my invention being divided between that phenomenon and a bear in the brewery.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
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