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about to happen
- The interest of the impending pursuit not only absorbed the general attention, but even made my sister liberal.Chapter 5 (18% in)
- "You had no idea of your impending good fortune, in those times?" said Estella, with a slight wave of her hand, signifying in the fighting times.Chapter 29 (43% in)
- And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet; the event that had begun to be prepared for, before I knew that the world held Estella, and in the days when her baby intelligence was receiving its first distortions from Miss Havisham's wasting hands.Chapter 38 (96% in)
- "I have an impending engagement," said I, glancing at Wemmick, who was putting fish into the post-office, "that renders me rather uncertain of my time.Chapter 48 (23% in)
There are no more uses of "impending" in Great Expectations.
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