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1  Either Orlick, or the strange man who had shown me the file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
2  She had shown a proud impatience more than once before, and had rather endured that fierce affection than accepted or returned it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
3  Hereupon Startop took him in hand, though with a much better grace than I had shown, and exhorted him to be a little more agreeable.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
4  As he had shown no diffidence on the subject, I ventured on the liberty of asking him the question, when he stood before me, dusting his hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
5  But she shook her head to that extent when she was shown it, that we were terrified lest in her weak and shattered state she should dislocate her neck.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
6  I believe she had not shown much susceptibility up to that time; but all the susceptibility she possessed certainly came out then, and she passionately loved him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
7  If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil; he gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
8  Standing by for a little, while they were at work, I observed that the odd looks they had cast at one another were repeated several times: with this difference now, that each of them seemed suspicious, not to say conscious, of having shown himself in a weak and unprofessional light to the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI