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1 "If there is bad blood between you and them," said I, to soften it off a little.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXI
2 But I was softened by the softened aspect of the man, and felt a touch of reproach.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXIX
3 But they returned with a gentle tone upon them that softened even the edge of Tickler.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXV
4 At last his father disinherited him; but he softened when he was dying, and left him well off, though not nearly so well off as Miss Havisham.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXII
5 For now, the very breath of the beans and clover whispered to my heart that the day must come when it would be well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXV
6 Those attractions in it, I had seen before; what I had never seen before, was the saddened, softened light of the once proud eyes; what I had never felt before was the friendly touch of the once insensible hand.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter LIX
7 They awakened a tender emotion in me; for my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like one who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter LVIII