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1  The trial was very short and very clear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
2  I was put in irons, brought to trial again, and sent for life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLII
3  The trial came on at once, and, when he was put to the bar, he was seated in a chair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
4  He was committed to take his trial at the next Sessions, which would come on in a month.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
5  He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his committal for trial and the coming round of the Sessions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
6  When the Sessions came round, Mr. Jaggers caused an application to be made for the postponement of his trial until the following Sessions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
7  It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss Havisham's.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
8  There was a bookcase in the room; I saw from the backs of the books, that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, acts of Parliament, and such things.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
9  But his greatest trials were in the churchyard, which had the appearance of a primeval forest, with a kind of small ecclesiastical wash-house on one side, and a turnpike gate on the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
10  He was taken to the Police Court next day, and would have been immediately committed for trial, but that it was necessary to send down for an old officer of the prison-ship from which he had once escaped, to speak to his identity.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
11  Following the wall of the jail, I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden the noise of passing vehicles; and from this, and from the quantity of people standing about smelling strongly of spirits and beer, I inferred that the trials were on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
12  He who had been presented in the worst light at his trial, who had since broken prison and had been tried again, who had returned from transportation under a life sentence, and who had occasioned the death of the man who was the cause of his arrest.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
13  The privilege of calling her by her name and hearing her call me by mine became, under the circumstances an aggravation of my trials; and while I think it likely that it almost maddened her other lovers, I know too certainly that it almost maddened me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII