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1  "All right," said the sergeant.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  Here, he skipped from his left leg on to his right.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  We talked a good deal as we walked, and all that Biddy said seemed right.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
4  I told her she was right, and I knew it was much to be regretted, but still it was not to be helped.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
5  I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
6  In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
7  The voice returned, "Quite right," and the window was shut again, and a young lady came across the court-yard, with keys in her hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
8  He did not turn me upside down this time to get at what I had, but left me right side upwards while I opened the bundle and emptied my pockets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
9  I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she checked me with her former impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
10  Now you see, Joseph and wife," said Pumblechook, as he took me by the arm above the elbow, "I am one of them that always go right through with what they've begun.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
11  And then they both stared at me, and I, with an obtrusive show of artlessness on my countenance, stared at them, and plaited the right leg of my trousers with my right hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
12  It was the sergeant who had spoken to me, and he was now looking round at the company, with his handcuffs invitingly extended towards them in his right hand, and his left on my shoulder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
13  If the villain had stopped here, his case would have been sufficiently awful, but he blackened his guilt by proceeding to take me into custody, with a right of patronage that left all his former criminality far behind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
14  I had never heard Joe read aloud to any greater extent than this monosyllable, and I had observed at church last Sunday, when I accidentally held our Prayer-Book upside down, that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  All the while knowing the madness of my heart to be so very mad and misplaced, that I was quite conscious it would have served my face right, if I had lifted it up by my hair, and knocked it against the pebbles as a punishment for belonging to such an idiot.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
16  I was secretly afraid of him when I saw him so dexterous; but I felt morally and physically convinced that his light head of hair could have had no business in the pit of my stomach, and that I had a right to consider it irrelevant when so obtruded on my attention.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
17  It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
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