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1  And a very handsome sum of money too, I think.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
2  Now, that handsome sum of money, Pip, is your own.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
3  "It is so difficult to fix a sum," said I, hesitating.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
4  You consider it, undoubtedly, a handsome sum of money.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
5  I was rather afraid of stating it, for it sounded a large sum.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
6  "That," said Joe, summing up with his judicial air, "were the word of Biddy."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
7  There is already lodged in my hands a sum of money amply sufficient for your suitable education and maintenance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
8  And at the rate of that handsome sum of money per annum, and at no higher rate, you are to live until the donor of the whole appears.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
9  Among these were the name of a banking-house in New South Wales, where a sum of money was, and the designation of certain lands of considerable value.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
10  It was not only that I could have summed up years and years and years while he said a dozen words, but that what he did say presented pictures to me, and not mere words.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
11  I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds; but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
12  I insensibly fall into a general mention of these journeys as numerous, because it was at once settled that I should return every alternate day at noon for these purposes, and because I am now going to sum up a period of at least eight or ten months.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII