1 He beat me then, as if he would have beaten me to death.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 2 He wouldn't let me touch him, when I tried; and then she beat him.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 3 Here Peggotty stopped, and softly beat upon my hand a little while.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 4 Another silence followed this, and another gentle beating on my hand.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 5 I am glad to know that my mother cried too, and that I felt her heart beat against mine.
6 As I recall our being opposed thus, face to face, I seem again to hear my heart beat fast and high.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 7 Not only was I soon as well known on the Norwood Road as the postmen on that beat, but I pervaded London likewise.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 8 He had my head as in a vice, but I twined round him somehow, and stopped him for a moment, entreating him not to beat me.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 9 Groping my way more carefully, for the rest of the journey, my heart beat high when I found the outer door, which had Mr. TRADDLES painted on it, open.
10 I recollect well how indignantly my heart beat, as I saw his crafty face, with the appropriately red light of the fire upon it, preparing for something else.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 11 I understood him to add that she was parting amidships, and I could readily suppose so, for the rolling and beating were too tremendous for any human work to suffer long.
12 I had a good mind to ask an old man, in wire spectacles, who was breaking stones upon the road, to lend me his hammer for a little while, and let me begin to beat a path to Dora out of granite.
13 Long miles of road then opened out before my mind; and, toiling on, I saw a ragged way-worn boy, forsaken and neglected, who should come to call even the heart now beating against mine, his own.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY 14 Very stiff and sore of foot I was in the morning, and quite dazed by the beating of drums and marching of troops, which seemed to hem me in on every side when I went down towards the long narrow street.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION 15 Another cry arose on shore; and looking to the wreck, we saw the cruel sail, with blow on blow, beat off the lower of the two men, and fly up in triumph round the active figure left alone upon the mast.
16 I imagined how the winds of winter would howl round it, how the cold rain would beat upon the window-glass, how the moon would make ghosts on the walls of the empty rooms, watching their solitude all night.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 17 At first, I thought it was Traddles coming back for something Mrs. Micawber had left behind; but as the step approached, I knew it, and felt my heart beat high, and the blood rush to my face, for it was Steerforth's.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 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.