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1  I ought to give you a reason for fighting, too.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
2  Biddy was the wisest of girls, and she tried to reason no more with me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
3  For a reason that I had, I felt as if my eyes would start out of my head.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
4  He quite understood and reciprocated my good intentions, as I had reason to know thereafter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
5  Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
6  I mentioned my reason for desiring to avoid observation in the village, and he lauded it to the skies.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
7  He never smoked so late, and it seemed to hint to me that he wanted comforting, for some reason or other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
8  She would have some fair reason for looking down upon me, I thought, if she saw me frightened; and she would have no fair reason.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
9  For, it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
10  He had struck root in Joe's establishment, by reason of my sister's sudden fancy for him, or I should have tried to get him dismissed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
11  But he was often talked at, while they were in progress, by reason of Mrs. Joe's perceiving that he was not favorable to my being taken from the forge.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
12  Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it at all; or why, if she did wear it at all, she should not have taken it off, every day of her life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
13  My reason is to be found in what took place in Mr. Pumblechook's parlor: where, on our presenting ourselves, my sister sat in conference with that detested seedsman.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
14  I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
15  I have reason to think that Joe's intellects were brightened by the encounter they had passed through, and that on our way to Pumblechook's he invented a subtle and deep design.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
16  Estella opened the gate as usual, and, the moment she appeared, Joe took his hat off and stood weighing it by the brim in both his hands; as if he had some urgent reason in his mind for being particular to half a quarter of an ounce.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
17  In pursuance of this luminous conception I mentioned to Biddy when I went to Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's at night, that I had a particular reason for wishing to get on in life, and that I should feel very much obliged to her if she would impart all her learning to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
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