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1  Well or ill done, excusably or inexcusably, it was done.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
2  Long after these constitutional powers had dispersed, my sister lay very ill in bed.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI
3  I had never seen them on such ill terms; for generally they got on very well indeed together.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
4  In my heart I believed her to be right; and yet I took it rather ill, too, that she should be so positive on the point.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
5  He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his committal for trial and the coming round of the Sessions.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
6  As he extended his hand with a magnificently forgiving air, and as I was broken by illness and unfit to quarrel, I took it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
7  And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVI
8  While it was preparing, I went to Satis House and inquired for Miss Havisham; she was still very ill, though considered something better.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
9  My terror, as I lay there, of falling ill, and being unfitted for to-morrow, was so besetting, that I wonder it did not disable me of itself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
10  After I had turned the worst point of my illness, I began to notice that while all its other features changed, this one consistent feature did not change.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
11  The late stress upon me had enabled me to put off illness, but not to put it away; I knew that it was coming on me now, and I knew very little else, and was even careless as to that.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
12  As the days wore on, and no ill news came, as the day closed in and darkness fell, my overshadowing dread of being disabled by illness before to-morrow morning altogether mastered me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
13  As the days wore on, and no ill news came, as the day closed in and darkness fell, my overshadowing dread of being disabled by illness before to-morrow morning altogether mastered me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
14  Again my mind, with its former inconceivable rapidity, had exhausted the whole subject of the attack upon my sister, her illness, and her death, before his slow and hesitating speech had formed these words.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
15  I alluded to the advantages I had derived in my first rawness and ignorance from his society, and I confessed that I feared I had but ill repaid them, and that he might have done better without me and my expectations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVII
16  As it seldom happened that I came in at that Whitefriars gate after the Temple was closed, and as I was very muddy and weary, I did not take it ill that the night-porter examined me with much attention as he held the gate a little way open for me to pass in.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
17  Now, whether," pursued Herbert, "he had used the child's mother ill, or whether he had used the child's mother well, Provis doesn't say; but she had shared some four or five years of the wretched life he described to us at this fireside, and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter L
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