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1  This terrible threat caused the two women to fall off immediately.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
2  'This is a terrible hardened one,' they says to prison wisitors, picking out me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
3  There was a stage, that evening, when she spoke collectedly of what had happened, though with a certain terrible vivacity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
4  The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
5  I went straight back to the Temple, where I found the terrible Provis drinking rum and water and smoking negro-head, in safety.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
6  It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so; and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
7  I doubt if a ghost could have been more terrible to me, up in those lonely rooms in the long evenings and long nights, with the wind and the rain always rushing by.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
8  The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
9  As I watched them while they all stood clustering about the forge, enjoying themselves so much, I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner my fugitive friend on the marshes was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
10  Under the weight of my wicked secret, I pondered whether the Church would be powerful enough to shield me from the vengeance of the terrible young man, if I divulged to that establishment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
11  Why, the deed may not have merited quite so terrible a name," said Herbert, "but, she was tried for it, and Mr. Jaggers defended her, and the reputation of that defence first made his name known to Provis.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
12  Biddy was astir so early to get my breakfast, that, although I did not sleep at the window an hour, I smelt the smoke of the kitchen fire when I started up with a terrible idea that it must be late in the afternoon.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
13  Some of his teeth had failed him since I saw him eat on the marshes, and as he turned his food in his mouth, and turned his head sideways to bring his strongest fangs to bear upon it, he looked terribly like a hungry old dog.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
14  To state that my terrible patron carried this little black book about the world solely to swear people on in cases of emergency, would be to state what I never quite established; but this I can say, that I never knew him put it to any other use.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL