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1  Mr. Pumblechook added, after a short interval of reflection, "Look at Pork alone."
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV
2  That's not so bad," said the sergeant, reflecting; "even if I was forced to halt here nigh two hours, that'll do.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
3  As she was still looking at the reflection of herself, I thought she was still talking to herself, and kept quiet.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
4  The opportunity that the day's rest had given me for reflection had resulted in my fully determining to say nothing to him respecting Compeyson.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
5  Enough, that I saw my own feelings reflected in Herbert's face, and not least among them, my repugnance towards the man who had done so much for me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLI
6  But I reflected that perhaps freedom without danger was too much apart from all the habit of his existence to be to him what it would be to another man.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
7  We changed, and I had not made up my mind, and still reflected for my comfort that it would be quite practicable to get down and walk back, when we changed again.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
8  As often as I was restless in the night, and that was every quarter of an hour, I reflected what an unkindness, what an injury, what an injustice, Biddy had done me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXV
9  Mrs. Pocket they held in contempt; but they allowed the poor soul to have been heavily disappointed in life, because that shed a feeble reflected light upon themselves.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXV
10  But reflecting, before I got into his room, which was at the back of the house and adjoined mine, that he and Startop had had a harder day than I, and were fatigued, I forbore.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
11  I reflected that even in those untoward times there must have been latent in Biddy what was now developing, for, in my first uneasiness and discontent I had turned to her for help, as a matter of course.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
12  I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it would never have done to have had an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High Street.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
13  It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIV
14  We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
15  Crowding up with these reflections came the reflection that I had seen him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had heard that other convict reiterate that he had tried to murder him; that I had seen him down in the ditch tearing and fighting like a wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
16  Crowding up with these reflections came the reflection that I had seen him with my childish eyes to be a desperately violent man; that I had heard that other convict reiterate that he had tried to murder him; that I had seen him down in the ditch tearing and fighting like a wild beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
17  Now, as they went along, Herbert reflected, that I might, after all, have been brought there on some genuine and serviceable errand tending to Provis's safety, and, bethinking himself that in that case interruption must be mischievous, left his guide and Startop on the edge of the quarry, and went on by himself, and stole round the house two or three times, endeavouring to ascertain whether all was right within.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
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