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1  I had started, but not under his touch.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
2  You address nothing in my breast, you touch nothing there.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
3  Joe laid his hand upon my shoulder with the touch of a woman.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
4  But I was softened by the softened aspect of the man, and felt a touch of reproach.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  Biddy held one of my hands to her lips, and Joe's restoring touch was on my shoulder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
6  He smiled, and I understood his touch to mean that he wished to lift my hand, and lay it on his breast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
7  It had been his own idea to wear that touch of powder, and I had conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
8  After a pause, they both heartily congratulated me; but there was a certain touch of sadness in their congratulations that I rather resented.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
9  The river, still dark and mysterious, was spanned by bridges that were turning coldly gray, with here and there at top a warm touch from the burning in the sky.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
10  With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
11  As the man made no answer when I asked him what he did there, but eluded my touch in silence, I ran to the Lodge and urged the watchman to come quickly; telling him of the incident on the way back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
12  When I said some reassuring words, she stretched out her tremulous right hand, as though she was going to touch me; but she recalled it again before I understood the action, or knew how to receive it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
13  What was to follow that I did not touch upon; neither, indeed, was I at all clear or comfortable about it in my own mind, now that I saw him in that softer condition, and in declared peril for my sake.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
14  A smile crossed his face then, and he turned his eyes on me with a trustful look, as if he were confident that I had seen some small redeeming touch in him, even so long ago as when I was a little child.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
15  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 Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIX
16  She held the head of her stick against her heart as she stood looking at the table; she in her once white dress, all yellow and withered; the once white cloth all yellow and withered; everything around in a state to crumble under a touch.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
17  Too heavily out of sorts to care much at the time whether it were he or no, or after all to touch the breakfast, I washed the weather and the journey from my face and hands, and went out to the memorable old house that it would have been so much the better for me never to have entered, never to have seen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
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