He took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, … were a drawback on my learning. The Circumlocution Office2023-03-02T16:55:42+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Domestic Violence, Education| Read More
Let him make a tool of me afresh and again? Once more? No, no, no. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-21T21:24:21+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Crime, Inequality, Revenge| Read More
I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-20T21:49:14+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Guilt, Regret, Remorse, Shame| Read More
We don’t know what you have done, but we wouldn’t have you starved to death for it. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-19T20:37:19+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Compassion, Hunger, Kindness, Starvation| Read More
Down banks and up banks, and over gates, and splashing into dikes, and breaking among coarse rushes: no man cared where he went. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-18T22:09:54+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Chase, Hunting, Manhunt, Pursuit| Read More
He’s a gentleman, if you please, this villain. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-19T20:37:47+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Crime, Inequality| Read More
All the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-16T22:52:38+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Abuse| Read More
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-15T23:24:51+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person), Nose| Read More
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-14T23:31:18+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Worry| Read More
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-13T20:37:49+00:00Categories: Great Expectations| Read More
What I suffered outside was nothing to what I underwent within. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-20T21:50:28+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Remorse, Torment, Worry| Read More
However fast I went, I couldn’t warm my feet, to which the damp cold seemed riveted, as the iron was riveted to the leg of the man I was running to meet. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-13T20:42:02+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Cold| Read More
Something clicked in his throat as if he had works in him like a clock, and was going to strike. The Circumlocution Office2023-02-16T09:21:18+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Emotions, Throat| Read More
Instead of my running at everything, everything seemed to run at me. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T20:29:28+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Worry| Read More
The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T20:29:47+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Conscience, Fear, Guilt, Nerves, Nervousness, Worry| Read More