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1  "Have a little brandy, uncle," said my sister.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
2  "He was, if ever a child was," said my sister, most emphatically.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
3  "He was a world of trouble to you, ma'am," said Mrs. Hubble, commiserating my sister.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
4  My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread and butter for us, that never varied.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
5  Drat that boy," interposed my sister, frowning at me over her work, "what a questioner he is.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
6  It were but lonesome then," said Joe, "living here alone, and I got acquainted with your sister.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
7  My sister, having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
8  The interest of the impending pursuit not only absorbed the general attention, but even made my sister liberal.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
9  My sister went for the stone bottle, came back with the stone bottle, and poured his brandy out: no one else taking any.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
10  She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
11  My sister was uncommonly lively on the present occasion, and indeed was generally more gracious in the society of Mrs. Hubble than in other company.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
12  The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister's observation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
13  My sister, who had begun to be alarmingly meditative, had to employ herself actively in getting the gin the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and mixing them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
14  My sister, Mrs. Joe, throwing the door wide open, and finding an obstruction behind it, immediately divined the cause, and applied Tickler to its further investigation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
15  My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
16  By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
17  This was all I heard that night before my sister clutched me, as a slumberous offence to the company's eyesight, and assisted me up to bed with such a strong hand that I seemed to have fifty boots on, and to be dangling them all against the edges of the stairs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
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