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1  Knowing what I knew, I set up an inference of my own here.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
2  I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  His eyes were set very deep in his head, and were disagreeably sharp and suspicious.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
4  Always seems to me," said Wemmick, "as if he had set a man-trap and was watching it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
5  When I saw him turning, I set my face towards home, and made the best use of my legs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
6  She set on every dish; and I always saw in her face, a face rising out of the caldron.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
7  As Drummle and Startop had each a boat, I resolved to set up mine, and to cut them both out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
8  It was a very dark night when it was all over, and when I set out with Mr. Wopsle on the walk home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
9  If I could be less affectionate and sensitive, I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
10  The sensation was like being touched in the marrow with some pungent and searching acid, it set my very teeth on edge.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
11  She set the dish on, touched my guardian quietly on the arm with a finger to notify that dinner was ready, and vanished.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
12  He then put up the pocket-book and set the candle a little aside, after peering round it into the darkness at Joe and me, to ascertain which was which.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
13  Then, he conducted me to a bower about a dozen yards off, but which was approached by such ingenious twists of path that it took quite a long time to get at; and in this retreat our glasses were already set forth.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
14  By that time, I was staggering on the kitchen floor like a little drunkard, through having been newly set upon my feet, and through having been fast asleep, and through waking in the heat and lights and noise of tongues.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
15  As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
16  We found a new set of people lingering outside, but Wemmick made a way among them by saying coolly yet decisively, "I tell you it's no use; he won't have a word to say to one of you;" and we soon got clear of them, and went on side by side.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
17  The other, with an effort at a scornful smile, which could not, however, collect the nervous working of his mouth into any set expression, looked at the soldiers, and looked about at the marshes and at the sky, but certainly did not look at the speaker.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
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