1 Still more so, by its contents.
2 If I do that, and find my Em'ly, I'm content.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER 3 I am never contented, except with your freshness, my gentle Daisy.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 4 We have not talked much, but Dora has been perfectly contented and cheerful.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 5 I persuaded myself that, unequal though we were in years, she would live tranquilly and contentedly with me.
6 I congratulated him on his contented looks and his good spirits, and saw, now, that his easy-chair went on wheels.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 7 For I am generally disinterested in my love, and think I could be content to make a figure before Miss Larkins, and expire.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 8 Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION 9 But its most precious contents were two half-crowns folded together in a bit of paper, on which was written, in my mother's hand, 'For Davy.'
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME 10 Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 11 But I am afraid I had a supreme satisfaction, of a personal and professional nature, in taking charge of Mr. Barkis's will, and expounding its contents.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS 12 Nor could I help thinking this a prudent course, since she looked at me out of the pickle-jar, with as great an access of sourness as if her black eyes had absorbed its contents.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 13 I was so shocked by the contents of this heart-rending letter, that I ran off directly towards the little hotel with the intention of taking it on my way to Doctor Strong's, and trying to soothe Mr. Micawber with a word of comfort.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 14 On going down in the morning, I found my aunt musing so profoundly over the breakfast table, with her elbow on the tray, that the contents of the urn had overflowed the teapot and were laying the whole table-cloth under water, when my entrance put her meditations to flight.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME 15 As her figure disappeared into the gloom of the entry, this counsel certainly presented itself to my mind in the light of a slight liberty on Mrs. Crupp's part; but, at the same time, I was content to receive it, in another point of view, as a word to the wise, and a warning in future to keep my secret better.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 16 With this, she tilted some of the contents of the little bottle on to one of the little bits of flannel, and, again imparting some of the virtues of that preparation to one of the little brushes, began rubbing and scraping away with both on the crown of Steerforth's head in the busiest manner I ever witnessed, talking all the time.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 17 When I thought of the airy dreams of youth that are incapable of realization, I thought of the better state preceding manhood that I had outgrown; and then the contented days with Agnes, in the dear old house, arose before me, like spectres of the dead, that might have some renewal in another world, but never more could be reanimated here.
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