1 I had no difficulty in recognizing either Minnie or Minnie's children.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 2 Or, she may have had assistance from the boatmen, and the boatmen's wives and children.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE 3 The streets that we have only seen as children always do, I believe, when we go back to them.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 4 There were two other children; Master Micawber, aged about four, and Miss Micawber, aged about three.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 5 She hadn't no children of her own, this woman, being a young wife; but she was a-looking to have one afore long.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 6 But Em'ly had took notice of her, and had gone and spoke to her; and as the young woman was partial to the children herself, they had soon made friends.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 7 We had gone on, so far, in a mixture of confidential jest and earnest, that had long grown naturally out of our familiar relations, begun as mere children.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY 8 He gave us to understand that in our children we lived again, and that, under the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, any accession to their number was doubly welcome.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 9 Master Micawber was hardly visible in a Guernsey shirt, and the shaggiest suit of slops I ever saw; and the children were done up, like preserved meats, in impervious cases.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS 10 As I sat beside the bed, when hope was abandoned and all was done, a fisherman, who had known me when Emily and I were children, and ever since, whispered my name at the door.
11 'She had been summat timorous and down,' said Mr. Peggotty, and had sat, at first, a little way off, at her spinning, or such work as it was, when Em'ly talked to the children.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 12 With these possessions we encamped, as it were, in the two parlours of the emptied house in Windsor Terrace; Mrs. Micawber, the children, the Orfling, and myself; and lived in those rooms night and day.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 13 I think, as Mrs. Micawber sat at the back of the coach, with the children, and I stood in the road looking wistfully at them, a mist cleared from her eyes, and she saw what a little creature I really was.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ... 14 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 DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 15 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.
16 My younger children are instructed to observe, as closely as circumstances will permit, the habits of the pigs and poultry maintained in the poorer parts of this city: a pursuit from which they have, on two occasions, been brought home, within an inch of being run over.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS 17 Grizzled old sailors were among the people, shaking their heads, as they looked from water to sky, and muttering to one another; ship-owners, excited and uneasy; children, huddling together, and peering into older faces; even stout mariners, disturbed and anxious, levelling their glasses at the sea from behind places of shelter, as if they were surveying an enemy.
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