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1  Beyond town, we found a heavy mist out, and it fell wet and thick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
2  I had a double-caped great-coat on, and over my arm another thick coat.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLIX
3  He took out of his pocket a great thick pocket-book, bursting with papers, and tossed it on the table.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XL
4  Upon that, I turned down the long passage which I had first trodden in my thick boots, and he made his bell sound.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
5  She gave me a triumphant glance in passing me, as if she rejoiced that my hands were so coarse and my boots were so thick, and she opened the gate, and stood holding it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
6  Of course I had no experience of a London summer day, and my spirits may have been oppressed by the hot exhausted air, and by the dust and grit that lay thick on everything.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XX
7  As the sparks fell thick and bright about him, I could see his hands, and touches of his face, and could make out that he was seated and bending over the table; but nothing more.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
8  That, if Joe knew it, and at any subsequent period of our joint domestic life remarked that his beer was flat or thick, the conviction that he suspected Tar in it, would bring a rush of blood to my face.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI
9  Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II
10  When I awoke without having parted in my sleep with the perception of my wretchedness, the clocks of the Eastward churches were striking five, the candles were wasted out, the fire was dead, and the wind and rain intensified the thick black darkness.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
11  When I got up to my little room and said my prayers, I did not forget Joe's recommendation, and yet my young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state, that I thought long after I laid me down, how common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith; how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
12  In the interval, Miss Havisham, in a fantastic way, had put some of the most beautiful jewels from her dressing-table into Estella's hair, and about her bosom and arms; and I saw even my guardian look at her from under his thick eyebrows, and raise them a little, when her loveliness was before him, with those rich flushes of glitter and color in it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX