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1  Orlick, with his hands in his pockets, slouched heavily at my side.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
2  The man, after looking at me for a moment, turned me upside down, and emptied my pockets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
3  Having filled his pipe, he put the surplus tobacco back again, as if his pocket were a drawer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
4  I think I shall trade, also," said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, "to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXII
5  Wemmick leaned back in his chair, staring at me, with his hands in the pockets of his trousers, and his pen put horizontally into the post.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI
6  He did not turn me upside down this time to get at what I had, but left me right side upwards while I opened the bundle and emptied my pockets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III
7  As we contemplated the fire, and as I thought what a difficult vision to realize this same Capital sometimes was, I put my hands in my pockets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXX
8  I am going up to my guardian in London," said I, casually drawing some guineas out of my pocket and looking at them; "and I want a fashionable suit of clothes to go in.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
9  I had previously sought in my pockets for the letter, that I might refer to it again; but I could not find it, and was uneasy to think that it must have been dropped in the straw of the coach.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LII
10  Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces, with his hands in his pockets and his round shoulders raised; plainly signifying that it was quite true, and that he despised us as asses all.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
11  When his body was found, many miles from the scene of his death, and so horribly disfigured that he was only recognizable by the contents of his pockets, notes were still legible, folded in a case he carried.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
12  He lodged at a sluice-keeper's out on the marshes, and on working-days would come slouching from his hermitage, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck and dangling on his back.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
13  His personal recognition of each successive client was comprised in a nod, and in his settling his hat a little easier on his head with both hands, and then tightening the post-office, and putting his hands in his pockets.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
14  Each of us would then refer to a confused heap of papers at his side, which had been thrown into drawers, worn into holes in pockets, half burnt in lighting candles, stuck for weeks into the looking-glass, and otherwise damaged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIV
15  The fact was, that when the five hundred pounds had come into my pocket, a thought had come into my head which had been often there before; and it appeared to me that Wemmick was a good person to advise with concerning such thought.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
16  No need to take a file from his pocket and show it to me; no need to take the handkerchief from his neck and twist it round his head; no need to hug himself with both his arms, and take a shivering turn across the room, looking back at me for recognition.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
17  Resenting this little success more than anything, Drummle, without any threat or warning, pulled his hands out of his pockets, dropped his round shoulders, swore, took up a large glass, and would have flung it at his adversary's head, but for our entertainer's dexterously seizing it at the instant when it was raised for that purpose.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
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