Use "estella" in a sentence

1. When they arrived in Estella the Beautiful late that

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2. I’m not sure about the talents of his wife, Estella, but she had a sister who was a concert singer

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3. "Call Estella," she repeated, flashing a look at me

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4. "He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy!" said Estella with disdain, before our first

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5. "You are to wait here, you boy," said Estella; and disappeared and closed the

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6. Behind the furthest end of the brewery, was a rank garden with an old wall; not so high but that I could struggle up and hold on long enough to look over it, and see that the rank garden was the garden of the house, and that it was overgrown with tangled weeds, but that there was a track upon the green and yellow paths, as if some one sometimes walked there, and that Estella was walking away from me even then

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7. Not only that, but I felt convinced that Miss Havisham too would not be understood; and although she was perfectly incomprehensible to me, I entertained an impression that there would be something coarse and treacherous in my dragging her as she really was (to say nothing of Miss Estella) before the contemplation of Mrs

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8. "Estella waved a blue flag, and I waved a red one, and Miss Havisham waved one sprinkled all over with little gold stars, out at the coachwindow

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9. When I got up to my little room and said my prayers, I did not forget Joe's recommendation, and yet my young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state, that I thought long after I laid me down, how common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith; how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands

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10. I thought how Joe and my sister were then sitting in the kitchen, and how I had come up to bed from the kitchen, and how Miss Havisham and Estella never sat in a kitchen, but were far above the level of such common doings

11. At the appointed time I returned to Miss Havisham's, and my hesitating ring at the gate brought out Estella

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12. There was some company in the room, and Estella said to me as she joined it, "You are to go and stand there boy, till you are wanted

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13. "He paid for them, did he not?" asked Estella

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14. As we were going with our candle along the dark passage, Estella stopped all of a sudden, and, facing round, said in her taunting manner, with her face quite close to mine,—

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15. Estella left me standing near the door, and I stood there until Miss Havisham cast her eyes upon me from the dressing-table

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16. While Estella was away lighting them down, Miss Havisham still walked with her hand on my shoulder, but more and more slowly

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17. As it stood open, and as I knew that Estella had let the visitors out,—for she had returned with the keys in her hand,—I strolled into the garden, and strolled all over it

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18. When I got into the courtyard, I found Estella waiting with the keys

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19. Estella was always about, and always let me in and out, but never told me I might kiss her again

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20. After that, it became customary with us to have it as we moved about, and Estella would often join in; though the whole strain was so subdued, even when there were three of us, that it made less noise in the grim old house than the lightest breath of wind

21. Besides, that shrinking from having Miss Havisham and Estella discussed, which had come upon me in the beginning, grew much more potent as time went on

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22. Estella opened the gate as usual, and, the moment she appeared, Joe took his hat off and stood weighing it by the brim in both his hands; as if he had some urgent reason in his mind for being particular to half a quarter of an ounce

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23. Estella took no notice of either of us, but led us the way that I knew so well

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24. I am afraid I was ashamed of the dear good fellow,—I know I was ashamed of him,— when I saw that Estella stood at the back of Miss Havisham's chair, and that her eyes laughed mischievously

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25. In another minute we were outside the gate, and it was locked, and Estella was gone

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26. Now it was all coarse and common, and I would not have had Miss Havisham and Estella see it on any account

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27. What I wanted, who can say? How can I say, when I never knew? What I dreaded was, that in some unlucky hour I, being at my grimiest and commonest, should lift up my eyes and see Estella looking in at one of the wooden windows of the forge

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28. Whenever I watched the vessels standing out to sea with their white sails spread, I somehow thought of Miss Havisham and Estella; and whenever the light struck aslant, afar off, upon a cloud or sail or green hillside or water-line, it was just the same

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29. — Miss Havisham and Estella and the strange house and the strange life appeared to have something to do with everything that was picturesque

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30. —Ay!" she cried suddenly, turning herself and her chair towards me, "You are looking round for Estella? Hey?"

31. I found Miss Sarah Pocket still on duty at the gate; I found Miss Havisham just as I had left her, and she spoke of Estella in the very same way, if not in the very same words

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32. ships as they sailed on, I began to combine Miss Havisham and Estella with the prospect, in my usual way

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33. I began to consider whether I was not more naturally and wholesomely situated, after all, in these circumstances, than playing beggar my neighbor by candle-light in the room with the stopped clocks, and being despised by Estella

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34. I asked myself the question whether I did not surely know that if Estella were beside me at that moment instead of Biddy, she would make me miserable? I was obliged to admit that I did know it for a certainty, and I said to myself, "Pip, what a fool you are!"

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35. And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness

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36. No more low, wet grounds, no more dikes and sluices, no more of these grazing cattle,—though they seemed, in their dull manner, to wear a more respectful air now, and to face round, in order that they might stare as long as possible at the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness; not for smith's work in general, and for you! I made my exultant way to the old Battery, and, lying down there to consider the question whether Miss Havisham intended me for Estella, fell asleep

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37. Yes, she had sent for me on a trial visit, and if I had come out of it successfully, I suppose I should have been provided for; perhaps I should have been what-you-may-called it to Estella

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38. "You said just now that Estella was not related to Miss Havisham, but adopted

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39. "There has always been an Estella, since I have heard of a Miss Havisham

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40. ') 'Would you tell him, then,' said she, 'that which Estella has come home and would be glad to see him

41. She had adopted Estella, she had as good as adopted me, and it could not failto be her intention to bring us together

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42. Estella was the inspiration of it, and the heart of it, of course

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43. The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible

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44. "When I came in, Miss Havisham, I thought there was nothing of Estella in the

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45. "What? You are not going to say into the old Estella?" Miss Havisham interrupted

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46. Estella laughed, and looked at the shoe in her hand, and laughed again, and looked at me, and put the shoe down

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47. So, Estella and I went out into the garden by the gate through which I had strayed to my encounter with the pale young gentleman, now Herbert; I, trembling in spirit and worshipping the very hem of her dress; she, quite composed and most decidedly not worshipping the hem of mine

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48. "You must know," said Estella, condescending to me as a brilliant and beautiful woman might, "that I have no heart,—if that has anything to do with my memory

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49. "Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt," said Estella, "and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be

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50. "What is the matter?" asked Estella

51. But, in the funereal room, with that figure of the grave fallen back in the chair fixing its eyes upon her, Estella looked more bright and beautiful than before, and I was under stronger enchantment

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52. The time so melted away, that our early dinner-hour drew close at hand, and Estella left us to prepare herself

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53. As Estella looked back over her shoulder before going out at the door, Miss Havisham kissed that hand to her, with a ravenous intensity that was of its kind quite dreadful

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54. Then, Estella being gone and we two left alone, she turned to me, and said in a

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55. I told him when I had arrived, and how Miss Havisham had wished me to come and see Estella

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56. What I suffered from, was the incompatibility between his cold presence and my feelings towards Estella

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57. We played until nine o'clock, and then it was arranged that when Estella came to London I should be forewarned of her coming and should meet her at the coach; and then I took leave of her, and touched her and left her

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58. While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her

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59. Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it

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60. He is nobody's enemy—" —"Don't add but his own," interposed Estella, "for I hate that class of man

61. "You have not every reason to say so of the rest of his people," said Estella, nodding at me with an expression of face that was at once grave and rallying, "for they beset Miss Havisham with reports and insinuations to your disadvantage

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62. Instead of answering, Estella burst out laughing

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63. "No, no you may be sure of that," said Estella

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64. " said Estella, "to know what satisfaction it gives me to see those people thwarted, or what an enjoyable sense of the ridiculous I have when they are made ridiculous

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65. It was no laughing matter with Estella now, nor was she summoning these remembrances from any shallow place

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66. "Two things I can tell you," said Estella

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67. "Now," said Estella, glidingaway the instant I touched her cheek, "you are to take care that I have some tea, and you are to take me to Richmond

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68. These I steeped in hot water, and so from the whole of these appliances extracted one cup of I don't know what for Estella

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69. "What place is that?" Estella asked me

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70. "He is more in the secrets of every place, I think," said Estella, in a low voice

71. "It is a part of Miss Havisham's plans for me, Pip," said Estella, with a sigh, as if she were tired; "I am to write to her constantly and see her regularly and report how I go on,—I and the jewels,—for they are nearly all mine now

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72. A bell with an old voice—which I dare say in its time had often said to the house, Here is the green farthingale, Here is the diamond-hilted sword, Here are the shoes with red heels and the blue solitaire—sounded gravely in the moonlight, and two cherry-colored maids came fluttering out to receive Estella

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73. Yet Estella was so inseparable from all my restlessness and disquiet of mind, that I really fell into confusion as to the limits of my own part in its production

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74. That is to say, supposing I had had no expectations, and yet had had Estella to think of, I could not make out to my satisfaction that I should have done much better

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75. From this last speech I derived the notion that Miss Havisham, for some reason or no reason, had not taken him into her confidence as to her designing me for Estella; that he resented this, and felt a jealousy about it; or that he really did object to that scheme, and would have nothing to do with it

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76. O the many, many nights and days through which the unquiet spirit within me haunted that house when Estella lived there! Let my body be where it would, my spirit was always wandering, wandering, wandering, about that house

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77. The lady with whom Estella was placed, Mrs

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78. Brandley by name, was a widow, with one daughter several years older than Estella

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79. Little, if any, community of feeling subsisted between them and Estella, but the understanding was established that they were necessary to her, and that she was necessary to them

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80. Brandley's house, I suffered every kind and degree of torture that Estella could cause me

81. "That's true," said Estella, with a cold careless smile that always chilled me

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82. She was even more dreadfully fond of Estella than she had been when I last saw them together; I repeat the word advisedly, for there was something positively dreadful in the energy of her looks and embraces

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83. From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds

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84. But, when we sat by her flickering fire at night, she was most weird; for then, keeping Estella's hand drawn through her arm and clutched in her own hand, she extorted from her, by dint of referring back to what Estella had told her in her regular letters, the names and conditions of the men whom she had fascinated; and as Miss Havisham dwelt upon this roll, with the intensity of a mind mortally hurt and diseased, she sat with her other hand on her crutch stick, and her chin on that, and her wan bright eyes glaring at me, a very spectre

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85. I saw in this, wretched though it made me, and bitter the sense of dependence and even of degradation that it awakened,—I saw in this that Estella was set to wreak Miss Havisham's revenge on men, and that she was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term

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86. Estella and Miss Havisham

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87. We were seated by the fire, as just now described, and Miss Havisham still had Estella's arm drawn through her own, and still clutched Estella's hand in hers, when Estella gradually began to detach herself

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88. Estella looked at her with perfect composure, and again looked down at the fire

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89. "What?" said Estella, preserving her attitude of indifference as she leaned against the great chimney-piece and only moving her eyes; "do you reproach me for being cold? You?"

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90. "Estella, Estella, Estella, to be proud and hard to me!"

91. Estella looked at her for a moment with a kind of calm wonder, but was not otherwise disturbed; when the moment was past, she looked down at the fire again

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92. "I begin to think," said Estella, in a musing way, after another moment of calm wonder, "that I almost understand how this comes about

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93. When I at last took courage to return to the room, I found Estella sitting at Miss Havisham's knee, taking up some stitches in one of those old articles of dress that were dropping to pieces, and of which I have often been reminded since by the faded tatters of old banners that I have seen hanging up in cathedrals

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94. Afterwards, Estella and I played at cards, as of yore,—only we were skilful now, and played French games,—and so the evening wore away, and I went to bed

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95. What was my indignant surprise when he called upon the company to pledge him to "Estella!"

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96. "Estella of where?" said I

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97. For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favor to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average

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98. "Estella," said I, "do look at that fellow in the corner yonder, who is looking

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99. "Why should I look at him?" returned Estella, with her eyes on me instead

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100. "Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards