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1  I could see nothing else but black darkness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  He had a large watch-chain, and strong black dots where his beard and whiskers would have been if he had let them.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
3  The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
4  He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down but stood up bristling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
5  By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah's ark.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
6  The second greatest surprise I have ever had in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking up at me out of a black eye.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
7  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
8  I was haunted by the fear that she would, sooner or later, find me out, with a black face and hands, doing the coarsest part of my work, and would exult over me and despise me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
9  But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
10  Under the circumstances, I felt that Joe could hardly fail to discern in the pale young gentleman, an appropriate passenger to be put into the black velvet coach; therefore, I said nothing of him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
11  My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
12  Mr. Jaggers's own high-backed chair was of deadly black horsehair, with rows of brass nails round it, like a coffin; and I fancied I could see how he leaned back in it, and bit his forefinger at the clients.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
13  So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul's bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
14  The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
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  What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe's furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
17  I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
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