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1  Mr. Wopsle shut his eyes, and opened them again; performing both ceremonies very slowly.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
2  It was between twelve and one o'clock when I reached the Temple, and the gates were shut.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVII
3  We shut our outer door on these solemn occasions, in order that we might not be interrupted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
4  He was to remain shut up in the chambers while I was gone, and was on no account to open the door.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
5  When I ran home from the churchyard, the forge was shut up, and Joe was sitting alone in the kitchen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
6  She was immediately deposed, however, by Herbert, who silently led me into the parlor and shut the door.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
7  His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
8  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
9  As the door was not yet shut, I thought I would leave Herbert there for a moment, and run up stairs again to say a word to my guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
10  Then I put the fastenings as I had found them, opened the door at which I had entered when I ran home last night, shut it, and ran for the misty marshes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
11  I shut the book and nodded slightly to Herbert, and put the book by; but we neither of us said anything, and both looked at Provis as he stood smoking by the fire.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
12  It is not much to the purpose whether a gate in that garden wall which I had scrambled up to peep over on the last occasion was, on that last occasion, open or shut.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
13  Out of such remembrances I brought into the light of the fire a half-formed terror that it might not be safe to be shut up there with him in the dead of the wild solitary night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
14  Presently another click came, and another little door tumbled open with "Miss Skiffins" on it; then Miss Skiffins shut up and John tumbled open; then Miss Skiffins and John both tumbled open together, and finally shut up together.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
15  So he went round the room and shook the curtains out, put the chairs in their places, tidied the books and so forth that were lying about, looked into the hall, peeped into the letter-box, shut the door, and came back to his chair by the fire: where he sat down, nursing his left leg in both arms.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
16  Though he called me Mr. Pip, and began rather to make up to me, he still could not get rid of a certain air of bullying suspicion; and even now he occasionally shut his eyes and threw his finger at me while he spoke, as much as to express that he knew all kinds of things to my disparagement, if he only chose to mention them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
17  But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker, I knew equally well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
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