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1  I felt my own attracted, no less steadily, to his.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
2  She is a very superior young lady, of very remarkable attractions, graces, and virtues.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
3  My eyes, however, not being so much under control as my tongue, were attracted towards my aunt very often during breakfast.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
4  The family, as emigrants, being objects of some interest in and about Hungerford, attracted so many beholders, that we were glad to take refuge in their room.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
5  When I had made this discovery, I went back, in an attraction I could not resist, to a lane by Mrs. Steerforth's, and looked over the corner of the garden wall.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
6  But, seeing a light in the little round office, and immediately feeling myself attracted towards Uriah Heep, who had a sort of fascination for me, I went in there instead.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
7  Knowing the utter hopelessness of attracting his attention from that distance, I made bold to open the gate, and walk after him, so as to meet him when he should turn round.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
8  I don't watch his eye in idleness, but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether it will be my turn to suffer, or somebody else's.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
9  Among the persons who are attracted to me in my rising fame and fortune,' said I, looking over my letters, 'and who discover that they were always much attached to me, is the self-same Creakle.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
10  He was so much worse in reality than in my distempered fancy, that afterwards I was attracted to him in very repulsion, and could not help wandering in and out every half-hour or so, and taking another look at him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
11  In glancing up from the outside, before we entered, I had seen women and children lolling at the windows over flower-pots; and we seemed to have attracted their curiosity, for these were principally the observers who looked out of their doors.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
12  But the being cherished as a kind of plaything in my room, and the consciousness that this accomplishment of mine was bruited about among the boys, and attracted a good deal of notice to me though I was the youngest there, stimulated me to exertion.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
13  I asked him what her disposition was: whether it was at all mischievous, and if her sympathies were generally on the right side of things: but, not succeeding in attracting his attention to these questions after two or three attempts, I forbore or forgot to repeat them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
14  He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
15  Mr. Micawber told us, that when he heard her sing the first one, on the first occasion of his seeing her beneath the parental roof, she had attracted his attention in an extraordinary degree; but that when it came to Little Tafflin, he had resolved to win that woman or perish in the attempt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
16  There was a second lady in the dining-room, of a slight short figure, dark, and not agreeable to look at, but with some appearance of good looks too, who attracted my attention: perhaps because I had not expected to see her; perhaps because I found myself sitting opposite to her; perhaps because of something really remarkable in her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
17  Doctor Strong regarded him with a puzzled and doubting look, which almost immediately subsided into a smile that gave me great encouragement; for it was full of amiability and sweetness, and there was a simplicity in it, and indeed in his whole manner, when the studious, pondering frost upon it was got through, very attractive and hopeful to a young scholar like me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
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