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1  Your own, one day, my dear, and you will use it well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
2  They'd say," returned my sister, curtly, "pretty well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
3  It scarcely sounded flattering, but I knew she meant well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
4  I answered, "Pretty well, sir," and my sister shook her fist at me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
5  In brief, Joe thought that if I thought well of it, he thought well of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
6  Estella took no notice of either of us, but led us the way that I knew so well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
7  This statement sounds so well, that I cannot in my conscience let it pass unexplained.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
8  I entered, therefore, and found myself in a pretty large room, well lighted with wax candles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
9  They're pretty well known to be out on the marshes still, and they won't try to get clear of 'em before dusk.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
10  There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
11  He was nothing to me, and I could have had no foresight then, that he ever would be anything to me, but it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
12  Pip," returned Joe, cutting me short as if he were hurt, "which I meantersay that were not a question requiring a answer betwixt yourself and me, and which you know the answer to be full well No.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
13  I had never heard Joe read aloud to any greater extent than this monosyllable, and I had observed at church last Sunday, when I accidentally held our Prayer-Book upside down, that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
14  Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
15  When I was very small and timid, he gave me to understand that the Devil lived in a black corner of the forge, and that he knew the fiend very well: also that it was necessary to make up the fire, once in seven years, with a live boy, and that I might consider myself fuel.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
16  As I never assisted at any other representation of George Barnwell, I don't know how long it may usually take; but I know very well that it took until half-past nine o clock that night, and that when Mr. Wopsle got into Newgate, I thought he never would go to the scaffold, he became so much slower than at any former period of his disgraceful career.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
17  It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
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