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1  Miss Georgiana, she have twenty pound down.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
2  "I suppose you make it twenty pounds," said I, smiling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
3  Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
4  Like the clock in Miss Havisham's room, and like Miss Havisham's watch, it had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
5  Gargery had departed this life on Monday last at twenty minutes past six in the evening, and that my attendance was requested at the interment on Monday next at three o'clock in the afternoon.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
6  It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
7  I looked at those hands, I looked at those eyes, I looked at that flowing hair; and I compared them with other hands, other eyes, other hair, that I knew of, and with what those might be after twenty years of a brutal husband and a stormy life.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
8  Miserably I went to bed after all, and miserably thought of Estella, and miserably dreamed that my expectations were all cancelled, and that I had to give my hand in marriage to Herbert's Clara, or play Hamlet to Miss Havisham's Ghost, before twenty thousand people, without knowing twenty words of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI