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1  On Sundays, she went to church elaborated.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
2  He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped over its own weathercock.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
3  Joe and I going to church, therefore, must have been a moving spectacle for compassionate minds.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
4  My sister, having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
5  I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
6  When he came to the low church wall, he got over it, like a man whose legs were numbed and stiff, and then turned round to look for me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
7  Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
8  Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
9  It was completely done, however, and when we were going out of church Wemmick took the cover off the font, and put his white gloves in it, and put the cover on again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
10  I am afraid that must be admitted," said Herbert; "and then I shall come back for the dear little thing, and the dear little thing and I will walk quietly into the nearest church.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
11  When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
12  That I could have been at our old church in my old church-going clothes, on the very last Sunday that ever was, seemed a combination of impossibilities, geographical and social, solar and lunar.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
13  With all the novelty of my emancipation on me, I went to church with Joe, and thought perhaps the clergyman wouldn't have read that about the rich man and the kingdom of Heaven, if he had known all.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
14  When we had passed the village and the church and the churchyard, and were out on the marshes and began to see the sails of the ships as they sailed on, I began to combine Miss Havisham and Estella with the prospect, in my usual way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
15  When I awoke without having parted in my sleep with the perception of my wretchedness, the clocks of the Eastward churches were striking five, the candles were wasted out, the fire was dead, and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
16  In the evening we went out for a walk in the streets, and went half-price to the Theatre; and next day we went to church at Westminster Abbey, and in the afternoon we walked in the Parks; and I wondered who shod all the horses there, and wished Joe did.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
17  I had never heard Joe read aloud to any greater extent than this monosyllable, and I had observed at church last Sunday, when I accidentally held our Prayer-Book upside down, that it seemed to suit his convenience quite as well as if it had been all right.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
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