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1  The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
2  Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
3  I believe they were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
4  She made it a powerful merit in herself, and a strong reproach against Joe, that she wore this apron so much.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
5  He had a large watch-chain, and strong black dots where his beard and whiskers would have been if he had let them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
6  She uttered the word with an eager look, and with strong emphasis, and with a weird smile that had a kind of boast in it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  They both execrated the place in very strong language, and gradually growled themselves out, and had nothing left to say.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
8  Finally, I remember that when I got into my little bedroom, I was truly wretched, and had a strong conviction on me that I should never like Joe's trade.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
9  Startop, younger in years and appearance, was reading and holding his head, as if he thought himself in danger of exploding it with too strong a charge of knowledge.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
10  It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
11  Then, he melted into parental tenderness, and gave them a shilling apiece and told them to go and play; and then as they went out, with one very strong effort to lift himself up by the hair he dismissed the hopeless subject.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
12  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
13  But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
14  I had stopped to look at the house as I passed; and its seared red brick walls, blocked windows, and strong green ivy clasping even the stacks of chimneys with its twigs and tendons, as if with sinewy old arms, had made up a rich attractive mystery, of which I was the hero.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
15  But, though she had taken such strong possession of me, though my fancy and my hope were so set upon her, though her influence on my boyish life and character had been all-powerful, I did not, even that romantic morning, invest her with any attributes save those she possessed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
16  If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
17  I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
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