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1  The two men looked at one another as Mr. Jaggers waved them behind again, and humbly fell back and were heard no more.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
2  And now, indeed, I felt as if my last anchor were loosening its hold, and I should soon be driving with the winds and waves.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
3  Estella waved a blue flag, and I waved a red one, and Miss Havisham waved one sprinkled all over with little gold stars, out at the coach-window.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
4  It was worth any money to see Wemmick waving a salute to me from the other side of the moat, when we might have shaken hands across it with the greatest ease.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
5  "Yes, yes, my friend," cried Mr. Jaggers, waving his forefinger to stop me as I made a show of protesting: "it's likely enough that you think you wouldn't, but you would."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
6  Then, he blessed me and stood waving his hand to me until I had passed the crook in the road; and then I turned into a field and had a long nap under a hedge before I pursued my way home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
7  But, Uncle Pumblechook, who was omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn't hear the word, wouldn't hear of the subject, imperiously waved it all away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
8  So contaminated did I feel, remembering who was coming, that the coach came quickly after all, and I was not yet free from the soiling consciousness of Mr. Wemmick's conservatory, when I saw her face at the coach window and her hand waving to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
9  When he looked out from his shelter in the distance, and saw that I waved my hat to him to come up, he rejoined me, and there we waited; sometimes lying on the bank, wrapped in our coats, and sometimes moving about to warm ourselves, until we saw our boat coming round.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV