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1  'He is your brother,' said my mother, fondling me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
2  'My brother Joe was his father,' said Mr. Peggotty.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
3  'Now that he's got a brother, I mean,' said Peggotty.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
4  Her brother took a book sometimes, but never read it that I saw.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
5  If it hadn't been for me, his own brother would have shut him up for life.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
6  Jane Murdstone,' said her brother, 'have the goodness not to interrupt me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
7  But perhaps my brother's penetration may enable him to have some insight into his character.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
8  And it certainly might have been, as you say, a better and happier thing for my brother if he had never entered into such a marriage.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
9  I kissed her, and my baby brother, and was very sorry then; but not sorry to go away, for the gulf between us was there, and the parting was there, every day.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
10  Miss Murdstone, during the latter portion of the contest, had dismounted, and was now waiting with her brother at the bottom of the steps, until my aunt should be at leisure to receive them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
11  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
12  On the walls there were some common coloured pictures, framed and glazed, of scripture subjects; such as I have never seen since in the hands of pedlars, without seeing the whole interior of Peggotty's brother's house again, at one view.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
13  Well, my life,' said Peggotty, giving me a squeeze, 'I have thought of it night and day, every way I can, and I hope the right way; but I'll think of it again, and speak to my brother about it, and in the meantime we'll keep it to ourselves, Davy, you and me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
14  She sat down by my side upon my little bed; and holding my hand, and sometimes putting it to her lips, and sometimes smoothing it with hers, as she might have comforted my little brother, told me, in her way, all that she had to tell concerning what had happened.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
15  I did not quite understand what old one Mrs. Gummidge was supposed to have fixed her mind upon, until Peggotty, on seeing me to bed, explained that it was the late Mr. Gummidge; and that her brother always took that for a received truth on such occasions, and that it always had a moving effect upon him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
16  It was Miss Murdstone who was arrived, and a gloomy-looking lady she was; dark, like her brother, whom she greatly resembled in face and voice; and with very heavy eyebrows, nearly meeting over her large nose, as if, being disabled by the wrongs of her sex from wearing whiskers, she had carried them to that account.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
17  On my imparting this discovery in confidence to Peggotty, she informed me that her brother dealt in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish; and I afterwards found that a heap of these creatures, in a state of wonderful conglomeration with one another, and never leaving off pinching whatever they laid hold of, were usually to be found in a little wooden outhouse where the pots and kettles were kept.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
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