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1  School began in earnest next day.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
2  We began badly, and went on worse.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
3  Peggotty began to be less with us, of an evening, than she had always been.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
4  It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
5  When this appeared improbable for that night, I undressed, and went to bed; and, there, I began to wonder fearfully what would be done to me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
6  I am glad to recollect that when the carrier began to move, my mother ran out at the gate, and called to him to stop, that she might kiss me once more.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
7  I was very much surprised that Mr. Peggotty was not Ham's father, and began to wonder whether I was mistaken about his relationship to anybody else there.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
8  She began to 'help' my mother next morning, and was in and out of the store-closet all day, putting things to rights, and making havoc in the old arrangements.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
9  I well remember though, how the distant idea of the holidays, after seeming for an immense time to be a stationary speck, began to come towards us, and to grow and grow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
10  The Master, upon this, put his hand underneath the skirts of his coat, and brought out his flute in three pieces, which he screwed together, and began immediately to play.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
11  Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
12  I HAD led this life about a month, when the man with the wooden leg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr. Creakle and the boys.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
13  One night when Miss Murdstone had been developing certain household plans to her brother, of which he signified his approbation, my mother suddenly began to cry, and said she thought she might have been consulted.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
14  At last in my desolation I began to consider that I was dreadfully in love with little Em'ly, and had been torn away from her to come here where no one seemed to want me, or to care about me, half as much as she did.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
15  Half the establishment was writhing and crying, before the day's work began; and how much of it had writhed and cried before the day's work was over, I am really afraid to recollect, lest I should seem to exaggerate.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
16  Having by this time cried as much as I possibly could, I began to think it was of no use crying any more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
17  How from counting months, we came to weeks, and then to days; and how I then began to be afraid that I should not be sent for and when I learnt from Steerforth that I had been sent for, and was certainly to go home, had dim forebodings that I might break my leg first.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
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