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1  He was stopped in his running on and in his shaking hands with me, by seeing Provis.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
2  The half-hour and the rum and water running out together, Joe got up to go, and took me by the hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
3  We were running too fast to admit of more being said, and we made no stop until we got into our kitchen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
4  The mist was heavier yet when I got out upon the marshes, so that instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
5  If I dozed for a minute, I was awakened by Miss Havisham's cries, and by her running at me with all that height of fire above her head.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
6  Then, I looked round and saw the disturbed beetles and spiders running away over the floor, and the servants coming in with breathless cries at the door.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
7  In the same moment I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her, and soaring at least as many feet above her head as she was high.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
8  I thought it a little too much that he should complain of being cut short in his flower after all, as if he had not been running to seed, leaf after leaf, ever since his course began.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
9  As we returned towards the setting sun we had yesterday left behind us, and as the stream of our hopes seemed all running back, I told him how grieved I was to think that he had come home for my sake.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
10  Herbert had sometimes said to me that he found it pleasant to stand at one of our windows after dark, when the tide was running down, and to think that it was flowing, with everything it bore, towards Clara.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
11  All this time, I was getting on towards the river; but however fast I went, I couldn't warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
12  I turned round to do so, and had taken up the candle in my hand, when it was extinguished by some violent shock; and the next thing I comprehended was, that I had been caught in a strong running noose, thrown over my head from behind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
13  In the same moment, I saw the steersman of the galley lay his hand on his prisoner's shoulder, and saw that both boats were swinging round with the force of the tide, and saw that all hands on board the steamer were running forward quite frantically.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV