Great Expectations

noun

1. a novel (1861) by Charles Dickens.

Great Expectations

1. (1861) A novel by Charles Dickens . Worldly ambitions lead a young boy, Pip, to abandon his true friends.

Example Sentences

It goes back to that series of great expectations, the Jim Palmer syndrome.

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He avoided disclosure because he told police he was Herbert Pocket, his character in Great Expectations.

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Excerpted from Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations, published by Hyperion, copyright 2013.

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Do we abandon David Copperfield or Great Expectations and grow up to live in the novels of Anthony Trollope?

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“We had great expectations that they were going to save the Janesville plant,” Conway said.

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He was always a bundle of possibilities and great expectations, which he has even now only begun to realize.

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In spite of the losses and humiliations of the war, great expectations were formed from the new scheme.

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Dickens, till Great Expectations at least, never achieved and I believe never attempted it.

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You will have no objection, I dare say, to your great expectations being encumbered with that easy condition.

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So imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expectations, that I looked in dismay at Mr. Wemmick.

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