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1 I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter IV
2 The air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side, and the air of youthfulness and submission with which I walked at hers, made a contrast that I strongly felt.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXIX
3 Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter X
4 Old Barley might be as old as the hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XLVI
5 With her character thus happily formed, in the first bloom of her youth she had encountered Mr. Pocket: who was also in the first bloom of youth, and not quite decided whether to mount to the Woolsack, or to roof himself in with a mitre.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXIII
6 The neighborhood, however, highly approved of these arrangements, and we were much admired as we went through the village; the more youthful and vigorous part of the community making dashes now and then to cut us off, and lying in wait to intercept us at points of vantage.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXV
7 Without having any definite idea of the penalties I had incurred, it was clear to me that village boys could not go stalking about the country, ravaging the houses of gentlefolks and pitching into the studious youth of England, without laying themselves open to severe punishment.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XII
8 Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter VII