1 I narrowly escaped being run over, twenty times at least, in half a mile.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ... 2 Times are altering now, and I suppose I shall be in a terrible state of earnestness one day or other.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY 3 But when she began to look about her, and to speak to me, he nodded his head and grinned several times.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 4 The Captain would have read it twenty thousand times, if twenty thousand people would have heard him, one by one.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 5 Six tea, two salt, and a pair of sugars, I have at different times borrowed money on, in secret, with my own hands.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 6 The best times were when she sat quietly at work in the doorway, and I sat on the wooden step at her feet, reading to her.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 7 They were my only comfort; and I was as true to them as they were to me, and read them over and over I don't know how many times more.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 8 Several times when I glanced at him, I observed that appearance with a sort of awe, and wondered what he was thinking about so closely.
9 But if he had asked the question twenty times, each time with twenty blows, I believe my baby heart would have burst before I would have told him so.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 10 So the fortnight slipped away, varied by nothing but the variation of the tide, which altered Mr. Peggotty's times of going out and coming in, and altered Ham's engagements also.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 11 At all times I lounged about the house and neighbourhood quite disregarded, except that they were jealous of my making any friends: thinking, perhaps, that if I did, I might complain to someone.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 12 I now approach a period of my life, which I can never lose the remembrance of, while I remember anything: and the recollection of which has often, without my invocation, come before me like a ghost, and haunted happier times.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 13 This may be fancy, though I think the memory of most of us can go farther back into such times than many of us suppose; just as I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy.
14 There was a delightful door cut in the side, and it was roofed in, and there were little windows in it; but the wonderful charm of it was, that it was a real boat which had no doubt been upon the water hundreds of times, and which had never been intended to be lived in, on dry land.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 15 Again, and again, and a hundred times again, since the night when the thought had first occurred to me and banished sleep, I had gone over that old story of my poor mother's about my birth, which it had been one of my great delights in the old time to hear her tell, and which I knew by heart.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ... 16 Then, in the privacy of my own little cabin, she informed me that Ham and Em'ly were an orphan nephew and niece, whom my host had at different times adopted in their childhood, when they were left destitute: and that Mrs. Gummidge was the widow of his partner in a boat, who had died very poor.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 17 The unbroken stillness of the parlour window leading me to infer, after a while, that she was not there, I lifted up my eyes to the window above it, where I saw a florid, pleasant-looking gentleman, with a grey head, who shut up one eye in a grotesque manner, nodded his head at me several times, shook it at me as often, laughed, and went away.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION Your search result possibly is over 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.