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1  Raymond is a witness what nervous jerkings I have in my legs.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
2  Raymond is a witness what ginger and sal volatile I am obliged to take in the night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
4  "Yes," repeated the stranger, looking round at the rest of the company with his right hand extended towards the witness, Wopsle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
5  After three days' delay, during which the crown prosecution stood over for the production of the witness from the prison-ship, the witness came, and completed the easy case.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
6  It was the sole resource; for he told me that the case must be over in five minutes when the witness was there, and that no power on earth could prevent its going against us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
7  You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIII
8  But beginning to perceive that the handcuffs were not for me, and that the military had so far got the better of the pie as to put it in the background, I collected a little more of my scattered wits.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
9  Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought, that perhaps after all Miss Havisham was going to make my fortune when my time was out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
10  He gave the medical testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
11  I have seen him so terrify a client or a witness by ceremoniously unfolding this pocket-handkerchief as if he were immediately going to blow his nose, and then pausing, as if he knew he should not have time to do it before such client or witness committed himself, that the self-committal has followed directly, quite as a matter of course.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX