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1  Young man, I am sorry to see you brought low.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVIII
2  Now, Biddy," said I, "I am very sorry to see this in you.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
3  I am extremely sorry to see this in you, Biddy, I repeated.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIX
4  I had no intention of doing it, and I am sorry for it if I did.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  No, ma'am, I am very sorry for you, and very sorry I can't play just now.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
6  Mr. Pocket said he was glad to see me, and he hoped I was not sorry to see him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIII
7  Of course, there can be no objection to your being sorry for him, and I'd put down a five-pound note myself to get him out of it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LV
8  I am extremely sorry; but I knew there was a coach from your part of the country at midday, and I thought you would come by that one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXI
9  I told him I had come up again to say how sorry I was that anything disagreeable should have occurred, and that I hoped he would not blame me much.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
10  I tried to rest him on the arm I could use, in any easy position; but it was dreadful to think that I could not be sorry at heart for his being badly hurt, since it was unquestionably best that he should die.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
11  He got heavily bruised, for I am sorry to record that the more I hit him, the harder I hit him; but he came up again and again and again, until at last he got a bad fall with the back of his head against the wall.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
12  Finding such clerk on Wemmick's post that morning, I knew what was going on; but I was not sorry to have Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick together, as Wemmick would then hear for himself that I said nothing to compromise him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LI