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1  , and within four months I assumed my first undivided responsibility.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
2  I wouldn't go into that," said Wemmick, evasively, "it might clash with official responsibilities.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
3  When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill, and ticked it off.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
4  The responsibility of giving the lady away devolved upon the Aged, which led to the clergyman's being unintentionally scandalized, and it happened thus.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
5  Dispirited and anxious, long hoping that to-morrow or next week would clear my way, and long disappointed, I sadly missed the cheerful face and ready response of my friend.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
6  The responsible duty of making the toast was delegated to the Aged, and that excellent old gentleman was so intent upon it that he seemed to me in some danger of melting his eyes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
7  Your acceptance of it, and your observance of it as binding, is the only remaining condition that I am charged with, by the person from whom I take my instructions, and for whom I am not otherwise responsible.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
8  I had grand ideas of the wealth and importance of Insurers of Ships in the City, and I began to think with awe of having laid a young Insurer on his back, blackened his enterprising eye, and cut his responsible head open.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
9  To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
10  In the same instant I heard responsive shouts, saw figures and a gleam of light dash in at the door, heard voices and tumult, and saw Orlick emerge from a struggle of men, as if it were tumbling water, clear the table at a leap, and fly out into the night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
11  The sheep stopped in their eating and looked timidly at us; and the cattle, their heads turned from the wind and sleet, stared angrily as if they held us responsible for both annoyances; but, except these things, and the shudder of the dying day in every blade of grass, there was no break in the bleak stillness of the marshes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V