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1  I expect you'll have an invitation to-morrow.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
2  The waiter coughed, as if he modestly invited me to get over that.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
3  I invited Wemmick to come up stairs, and refresh himself with a glass of grog before walking to Walworth.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
4  She drew a pitcher of beer from the cask for the soldiers, and invited the sergeant to take a glass of brandy.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
5  As a necessary sequence, I asked him if he would favor us with his company, and he promptly accepted the invitation.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
6  The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests were invited.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
7  It was the sergeant who had spoken to me, and he was now looking round at the company, with his handcuffs invitingly extended towards them in his right hand, and his left on my shoulder.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
8  The horse was visible outside in the drizzle at the door, my breakfast was put on the table, Drummle's was cleared away, the waiter invited me to begin, I nodded, we both stood our ground.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIII
9  My guardian was in his room, washing his hands with his scented soap, when I went into the office from Walworth; and he called me to him, and gave me the invitation for myself and friends which Wemmick had prepared me to receive.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
10  True, I had no Avenger in my service now, but I was looked after by an inflammatory old female, assisted by an animated rag-bag whom she called her niece, and to keep a room secret from them would be to invite curiosity and exaggeration.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
11  All I know of it; and indeed I only know so much, through piecing it out for myself; for my father always avoids it, and, even when Miss Havisham invited me to go there, told me no more of it than it was absolutely requisite I should understand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
12  To-night, Joe several times invited me, by the display of his fast diminishing slice, to enter upon our usual friendly competition; but he found me, each time, with my yellow mug of tea on one knee, and my untouched bread and butter on the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II