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1  He looked it out from a handful of small change, folded it in some crumpled paper, and gave it to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
2  I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
3  It's not much to be particular about," said the sergeant; "it'll do you small good, my man, being in the same plight yourself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
4  You fail, or you go from my words in any partickler, no matter how small it is, and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted, and ate.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
5  As I was saying, Pip, it were my intentions to have had it cut over him; but poetry costs money, cut it how you will, small or large, and it were not done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
6  At length little Jane, perceiving its young brains to be imperilled, softly left her place, and with many small artifices coaxed the dangerous weapon away.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
7  I am far from being sure that I might not have astonished our small congregation by resorting to this extreme measure, but for its being Christmas Day and no Sunday.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
8  After all, I remained up there, repeatedly unlocking and unstrapping my small portmanteau and locking and strapping it up again, until Biddy called to me that I was late.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  These were agreeably dispersed among small specimens of china and glass, various neat trifles made by the proprietor of the museum, and some tobacco-stoppers carved by the Aged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
10  The room was but small, and the clients seemed to have had a habit of backing up against the wall; the wall, especially opposite to Mr. Jaggers's chair, being greasy with shoulders.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
11  She rented a small cottage, and Mr. Wopsle had the room up stairs, where we students used to overhear him reading aloud in a most dignified and terrific manner, and occasionally bumping on the ceiling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
12  It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
13  It may have been about a month after my sister's reappearance in the kitchen, when Biddy came to us with a small speckled box containing the whole of her worldly effects, and became a blessing to the household.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
14  Here, the daylight reappeared, and I found myself in a small paved courtyard, the opposite side of which was formed by a detached dwelling-house, that looked as if it had once belonged to the manager or head clerk of the extinct brewery.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
15  And I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small of the back, and having my face ignominiously shoved against the kitchen wall, because I did not answer those questions at sufficient length.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
16  Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry, brown, corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut-shells, and a large mouth like a cat's without the whiskers, supported this position by saying, "No, indeed, my dear."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
17  When I was very small and timid, he gave me to understand that the Devil lived in a black corner of the forge, and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it was necessary to make up the fire, once in seven years, with a live boy, and that I might consider myself fuel.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
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