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1  He was in a Decline, and was a shadow to look at.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
2  I felt as if her shadow were absolutely upon us, when the galley hailed us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
3  I saw the shadows of the heavy stair-rails, thrown by the watchman's lantern on the wall.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
4  When the shadows of evening were closing in, I took an opportunity of getting into the garden with Biddy for a little talk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
5  And there, my sister was laid quietly in the earth, while the larks sang high above it, and the light wind strewed it with beautiful shadows of clouds and trees.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
6  But I must have lost it longer than I had thought, since, although I could recognize nothing in the darkness and the fitful lights and shadows of our lamps, I traced marsh country in the cold damp wind that blew at us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
7  In a word, I saw in this Miss Havisham as I had her then and there before my eyes, and always had had her before my eyes; and I saw in this, the distinct shadow of the darkened and unhealthy house in which her life was hidden from the sun.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
8  There had been some light snow, overnight, and it lay nowhere else to my knowledge; but, it had not quite melted from the cold shadow of this bit of garden, and the wind caught it up in little eddies and threw it at the window, as if it pelted me for coming there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
9  I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
10  But the old boy was so far from responding, that he would not even walk to Hammersmith on the same side of the way; so Herbert and I, who remained in town, saw them going down the street on opposite sides; Startop leading, and Drummle lagging behind in the shadow of the houses, much as he was wont to follow in his boat.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI