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1  The cast was made in Newgate, directly after he was taken down.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
2  "Yes," said I, casting my eyes over the note, which was exactly in those terms.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
3  One day is so like another here," he replied, "that I don't know without casting it up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
4  Pip," said Estella, casting her glance over the room, "don't be foolish about its effect on you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
5  Estella left me standing near the door, and I stood there until Miss Havisham cast her eyes upon me from the dressing-table.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
6  Wemmick's attention being thus directed to his brooch, he put down the cast, and polished the brooch with his pocket-handkerchief.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
7  While he was putting up the other cast and coming down from the chair, the thought crossed my mind that all his personal jewelry was derived from like sources.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
8  The appointed punishment for his return to the land that had cast him out, being Death, and his case being this aggravated case, he must prepare himself to Die.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
9  The two ghastly casts on the shelf were not far from him, and their expression was as if they were making a stupid apoplectic attempt to attend to the conversation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
10  But I sat wondering and waiting in Mr. Jaggers's close room, until I really could not bear the two casts on the shelf above Mr. Jaggers's chair, and got up and went out.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
11  With that, he looked back, and nodded at this dead plant, and then cast his eyes about him in walking out of the yard, as if he were considering what other pot would go best in its place.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
12  After a little show of indecision, which there were none to see but the two or three amphibious creatures belonging to our Temple stairs, we went on board and cast off; Herbert in the bow, I steering.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
13  Sending her out to attract and torment and do mischief, Miss Havisham sent her with the malicious assurance that she was beyond the reach of all admirers, and that all who staked upon that cast were secured to lose.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
14  As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
15  Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
16  Standing by for a little, while they were at work, I observed that the odd looks they had cast at one another were repeated several times: with this difference now, that each of them seemed suspicious, not to say conscious, of having shown himself in a weak and unprofessional light to the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
17  As I stood idle by Mr. Jaggers's fire, its rising and falling flame made the two casts on the shelf look as if they were playing a diabolical game at bo-peep with me; while the pair of coarse, fat office candles that dimly lighted Mr. Jaggers as he wrote in a corner were decorated with dirty winding-sheets, as if in remembrance of a host of hanged clients.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII
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