1 You've been lying out on the meshes, and they're dreadful aguish.
2 Compeyson's wife and me took him up to bed agen, and he raved most dreadful.
3 I got a dreadful start, when I thought I heard the file still going; but it was only a sheep-bell.
4 Words cannot tell what a sense I had, at the same time, of the dreadful mystery that he was to me.
5 Yet I am afraid the dreadful truth is, Herbert, that he is attached to me, strongly attached to me.
6 This dilated until it filled the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my dreadful burden.
7 I felt that I must have something in reserve for my dreadful acquaintance, and his ally the still more dreadful young man.
8 The dreadful condition to which he was brought, was so appalling to both of us, that we could not refer to it in plainer words.
9 '"'I don't know how she's there,' says Arthur, shivering dreadful with the horrors, 'but she's standing in the corner at the foot of the bed, awful mad.'
10 As Estella looked back over her shoulder before going out at the door, Miss Havisham kissed that hand to her, with a ravenous intensity that was of its kind quite dreadful.
11 She was even more dreadfully fond of Estella than she had been when I last saw them together; I repeat the word advisedly, for there was something positively dreadful in the energy of her looks and embraces.
12 I tried to rest him on the arm I could use, in any easy position; but it was dreadful to think that I could not be sorry at heart for his being badly hurt, since it was unquestionably best that he should die.
13 Years afterwards, I made a dreadful likeness of that woman, by causing a face that had no other natural resemblance to it than it derived from flowing hair to pass behind a bowl of flaming spirits in a dark room.
14 For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
15 To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
16 It then occurred to me as possible that the man might have slipped into my rooms; so, lighting my candle at the watchman's, and leaving him standing at the door, I examined them carefully, including the room in which my dreaded guest lay asleep.
17 That Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that any such man as that man had been described to be would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer was scarcely to be imagined.
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