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Great Expectations
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  • I remember Great Expectations and Jane Eyre, both of which I was forced to abandon because they were too difficult.†   (source)
  • I have high hopes and great expectations for you, George.†   (source)
  • The other section of Honors English was reading Great Expectations.†   (source)
  • When Briarcrest had given him a list of choices of books to write a report on, Miss Sue, thinking it might spark Michael's interest, picked Great Expectations.†   (source)
  • -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Dustfinger set out when the night could grow no darker.†   (source)
  • 'Great Expectations,' Mr. Weatherhall shouted at the contestants as he passed.†   (source)
  • "My favorite Dickens novel is Great Expectations," he said.†   (source)
  • This was definitely more interesting than reading Great Expectations (Pip, Estella, who cares?†   (source)
  • It was Dickens's Great Expectations, which I had never read.†   (source)
  • This case represents, my dear Mr. Emerson, one of the rare, delicate instances in which one for whom we held great expectations has gone grievously astray, and who in his fall threatens to upset certain delicate relationships between certain interested individuals and the school.†   (source)
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  • And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.†   (source)
  • The past enriched, and experience, and having cared for one or two people, and so having acquired the power which the young lack, of cutting short, doing what one likes, not caring a rap what people say and coming and going without any very great expectations (he left his paper on the table and moved off), which however (and he looked for his hat and coat) was not altogether true of him, not to-night, for here he was starting to go to a party, at his age, with the belief upon him that…†   (source)
  • I'm of Master Hutter's mind, that it's far wiser to mistrust a savage's ingenuity, than to build any great expectations on his want of eye-sight.†   (source)
  • But then, I remembered that such laws wasn't made for us hunters, and bethought me that the poor man might have built great expectations for the next winter on the sale of his skins; and I left them where they lay.†   (source)
  • You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition.†   (source)
  • It was the only good thing I had done, and the only completed thing I had done, since I was first apprised of my great expectations.†   (source)
  • But whether Joe knew how poor I was, and how my great expectations had all dissolved, like our own marsh mists before the sun, I could not understand.†   (source)
  • So imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expectations, that I looked in dismay at Mr. Wemmick.†   (source)
  • It would all come out in good time, I observed, and in the meanwhile nothing was to be said, save that I had come into great expectations from a mysterious patron.†   (source)
  • Further, that it is the desire of the present possessor of that property, that he be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,—in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations.†   (source)
  • She took the first opportunity of affronting her mother-in-law on the occasion, talking to her so expressively of her brother's great expectations, of Mrs. Ferrars's resolution that both her sons should marry well, and of the danger attending any young woman who attempted to DRAW HIM IN; that Mrs. Dashwood could neither pretend to be unconscious, nor endeavor to be calm.†   (source)
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