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1  Whatever I acquired, I tried to impart to Joe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
2  I tried to collect my thoughts, but I was stunned.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
3  I had tried hard at it, but had made nothing of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
4  Biddy was the wisest of girls, and she tried to reason no more with me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
5  It was abandoned as soon as tried, and he wore his grizzled hair cut short.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
6  I had in vain tried everything producible that began with a T, from tar to toast and tub.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
7  The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, "He tried to murder me."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
8  In the meantime Mr. Pocket grew grayer, and tried oftener to lift himself out of his perplexities by the hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
9  The pale young gentleman's nose had stained my trousers, and I tried to wash out that evidence of my guilt in the dead of night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII
10  He had struck root in Joe's establishment, by reason of my sister's sudden fancy for him, or I should have tried to get him dismissed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
11  He now retorted in a coarse, lumpish way, and Startop tried to turn the discussion aside with some small pleasantry that made us all laugh.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
12  Miss Havisham beckoned her to come close, and took up a jewel from the table, and tried its effect upon her fair young bosom and against her pretty brown hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
13  After a time, I tried in the dark both to get out, and to go back, but I could do neither until some streaks of day strayed in and showed me where to lay my hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
14  When I had rung at the bell with an unsteady hand, I turned my back upon the gate, while I tried to get my breath and keep the beating of my heart moderately quiet.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
15  His eyes looked so awfully hungry too, that when I handed him the file and he laid it down on the grass, it occurred to me he would have tried to eat it, if he had not seen my bundle.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
16  Crowding up with these reflections came the reflection that I had seen him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had heard that other convict reiterate that he had tried to murder him; that I had seen him down in the ditch tearing and fighting like a wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
17  He held it between himself and the candle, tasted the port, rolled it in his mouth, swallowed it, looked at his glass again, smelt the port, tried it, drank it, filled again, and cross-examined the glass again, until I was as nervous as if I had known the wine to be telling him something to my disadvantage.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
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