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1  I don't expect it to do me any good.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
2  I did not expect to see this in you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
3  I expect you'll have an invitation to-morrow.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
4  I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
5  I fully expected to find a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
6  A dread possessed me that when I least expected it, the file would reappear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X
7  You are expected on board," said the sergeant to my convict; "they know you are coming.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
8  I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  He replied that it would give him much pleasure, and that he would expect me at the office at six o'clock.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
10  I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
11  Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
12  Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
13  O yes, I constantly expect to see him," returned Herbert, "because I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the ceiling.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
14  But they twinkled out one by one, without throwing any light on the questions why on earth I was going to play at Miss Havisham's, and what on earth I was expected to play at.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII
15  We should know at what time to expect them, according to where we were, and would hail the first; so that, if by any accident we were not taken abroad, we should have another chance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
16  When we had come out again, and had got rid of the boys who had been put into great spirits by the expectation of seeing me publicly tortured, and who were much disappointed to find that my friends were merely rallying round me, we went back to Pumblechook's.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII
17  When he had at last done and had appointed to send the articles to Mr. Pumblechook's on the Thursday evening, he said, with his hand upon the parlor lock, "I know, sir, that London gentlemen cannot be expected to patronize local work, as a rule; but if you would give me a turn now and then in the quality of a townsman, I should greatly esteem it."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
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