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1  Pray make the best use of your time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
2  It was of no use asking myself this question now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
3  Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
4  When I saw him turning, I set my face towards home, and made the best use of my legs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
5  I did intend to ask you to use any little opportunities you might have after I was gone, of improving dear Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
6  The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
7  Mr. Pocket took me into the house and showed me my room: which was a pleasant one, and so furnished as that I could use it with comfort for my own private sitting-room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
8  She made use of me to tease other admirers, and she turned the very familiarity between herself and me to the account of putting a constant slight on my devotion to her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
9  I felt mortified to be of so little use in the boat; but, there were few better oarsmen than my two friends, and they rowed with a steady stroke that was to last all day.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
10  Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
11  In one or two instances there was a difficulty respecting the raising of fees, and then Mr. Wemmick, backing as far as possible from the insufficient money produced, said, "it's no use, my boy."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
12  I use the word natural, in the sense of its being unaffected; there was something comic in his distraught way, as though it would have been downright ludicrous but for his own perception that it was very near being so.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
13  We found a new set of people lingering outside, but Wemmick made a way among them by saying coolly yet decisively, "I tell you it's no use; he won't have a word to say to one of you;" and we soon got clear of them, and went on side by side.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
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
15  In a back room, a high-shouldered man with a face-ache tied up in dirty flannel, who was dressed in old black clothes that bore the appearance of having been waxed, was stooping over his work of making fair copies of the notes of the other two gentlemen, for Mr. Jaggers's own use.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
16  Three or four times I feebly thought I would start conversation; but whenever he saw me going to ask him anything, he looked at me with his glass in his hand, and rolling his wine about in his mouth, as if requesting me to take notice that it was of no use, for he couldn't answer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
17  I was nearly going away without the pie, but I was tempted to mount upon a shelf, to look what it was that was put away so carefully in a covered earthen ware dish in a corner, and I found it was the pie, and I took it in the hope that it was not intended for early use, and would not be missed for some time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
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