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1  Within this space, he now slouched backwards and forwards.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
2  Orlick, with his hands in his pockets, slouched heavily at my side.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
3  He was a broadshouldered loose-limbed swarthy fellow of great strength, never in a hurry, and always slouching.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
4  The more I dressed him and the better I dressed him, the more he looked like the slouching fugitive on the marshes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
5  He received that piece of information with a yell of laughter, and dropped back, but came slouching after us at a little distance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
6  We were noticing this, and saying how that the mist rose with a change of wind from a certain quarter of our marshes, when we came upon a man, slouching under the lee of the turnpike house.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
7  After that day, a day rarely passed without her drawing the hammer on her slate, and without Orlick's slouching in and standing doggedly before her, as if he knew no more than I did what to make of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
8  He lodged at a sluice-keeper's out on the marshes, and on working-days would come slouching from his hermitage, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck and dangling on his back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
9  We told him why we wanted him to come into the kitchen, and he slowly laid down his hammer, wiped his brow with his arm, took another wipe at it with his apron, and came slouching out, with a curious loose vagabond bend in the knees that strongly distinguished him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
10  He always slouched, locomotively, with his eyes on the ground; and, when accosted or otherwise required to raise them, he looked up in a half-resentful, half-puzzled way, as though the only thought he ever had was, that it was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
11  He never even seemed to come to his work on purpose, but would slouch in as if by mere accident; and when he went to the Jolly Bargemen to eat his dinner, or went away at night, he would slouch out, like Cain or the Wandering Jew, as if he had no idea where he was going and no intention of ever coming back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV