All 12 Uses of
accompany
in
Great Expectations
- I was never allowed a candle to light me to bed, and, as I went up stairs in the dark, with my head tingling,—from Mrs. Joe's thimble having played the tambourine upon it, to accompany her last words,—I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the hulks were handy for me.†
Chpt 2
- It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss Havisham's.†
Chpt 13
- The forge was shut up for the day, and Joe inscribed in chalk upon the door (as it was his custom to do on the very rare occasions when he was not at work) the monosyllable HOUT, accompanied by a sketch of an arrow supposed to be flying in the direction he had taken.†
Chpt 13
- No sooner did he see me, than he appeared to consider that a special Providence had put a 'prentice in his way to be read at; and he laid hold of me, and insisted on my accompanying him to the Pumblechookian parlor.†
Chpt 15
- There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the messenger was gone, I remarked this Jew, who was of a highly excitable temperament, performing a jig of anxiety under a lamp-post and accompanying himself, in a kind of frenzy, with the words, "O Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!"†
Chpt 20
- Another clerk was rung down from up stairs to take his place while he was out, and I accompanied him into the street, after shaking hands with my guardian.†
Chpt 20
- The Aged was so delighted to work the drawbridge, that I made no offer to assist him, but stood quiet until Wemmick had come across, and had presented me to Miss Skiffins; a lady by whom he was accompanied.†
Chpt 37
- I was with her, for I almost always accompanied them to and from such places.†
Chpt 38 *
- Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all.†
Chpt 39
- As I shut it, Saint Paul's, and all the many church-clocks in the City—some leading, some accompanying, some following—struck that hour.†
Chpt 39
- Clara returned soon afterwards, and Herbert accompanied me up stairs to see our charge.†
Chpt 46
- He further gave me leave to accompany the prisoner to London; but declined to accord that grace to my two friends.†
Chpt 54
Definition:
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(accompany as in: accompany on the journey) to travel along with