HIM in Classic Quotes

1  When I saw him turning, I set my face towards home, and made the best use of my legs.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

2  I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I

3  A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
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4  The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
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5  As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
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6  But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with his sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy or the tide was in.

Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I