All 7 Uses of
contract
in
Great Expectations
- When he had talked with me a little, he said to Mrs. Pocket, with a rather anxious contraction of his eyebrows, which were black and handsome, "Belinda, I hope you have welcomed Mr. Pip?"†
Chpt 23 *
- I soon contracted expensive habits, and began to spend an amount of money that within a few short months I should have thought almost fabulous; but through good and evil I stuck to my books.†
Chpt 25
- Hereupon, a choleric gentleman, who had taken the fourth place on that seat, flew into a most violent passion, and said that it was a breach of contract to mix him up with such villainous company, and that it was poisonous, and pernicious, and infamous, and shameful, and I don't know what else.†
Chpt 28
- Does the thought-contracted brow of the local Sage or the lustrous eye of local Beauty inquire whose fortunes?†
Chpt 28
- So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt.†
Chpt 34 *
- It was a shaded lamp, to shine upon a book, and its circle of light was very contracted; so that he was in it for a mere instant, and then out of it.†
Chpt 39
- We had an excellent breakfast, and when any one declined anything on table, Wemmick said, "Provided by contract, you know; don't be afraid of it!"†
Chpt 55
Definitions:
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(contract as in: the metal contracted) when something gets shorter or smaller
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(contract as in: legal contract) an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law