1 We are playing in the winter twilight, dancing about the parlour.
2 At the conclusion of the proceedings the tables were cleared as if by art-magic for dancing.
3 I think the dancing-school a tiresome affair, and wonder why the girls can't dance by themselves and leave us alone.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 4 There was a pretty woman at the back of the shop, dancing a little child in her arms, while another little fellow clung to her apron.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 5 She looked very pretty, and was very merry; but the little feet that used to be so nimble when they danced round Jip, were dull and motionless.
6 Minnie laughed, and stroked her banded hair upon her temples, as her father put one of his fat fingers into the hand of the child she was dancing on the counter.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 7 Mr. Omer coughed again, in consequence of laughing, and was assisted out of his fit by his daughter, who now stood close beside us, dancing her smallest child on the counter.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 8 I remembered her, from that instant, only as the young mother of my earliest impressions, who had been used to wind her bright curls round and round her finger, and to dance with me at twilight in the parlour.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 9 The raging agonies I suffer on the night of the Race Ball, where I know the eldest Miss Larkins will be dancing with the military, ought to have some compensation, if there be even-handed justice in the world.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 10 After tea we had the guitar; and Dora sang those same dear old French songs about the impossibility of ever on any account leaving off dancing, La ra la, La ra la, until I felt a much greater Monster than before.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 11 I see myself emerging one evening from some of these arches, on a little public-house close to the river, with an open space before it, where some coal-heavers were dancing; to look at whom I sat down upon a bench.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 12 This consideration set me thinking and thinking of an imaginary party where people were dancing the hours away, until that became a dream too, and I heard the music incessantly playing one tune, and saw Dora incessantly dancing one dance, without taking the least notice of me.
13 This consideration set me thinking and thinking of an imaginary party where people were dancing the hours away, until that became a dream too, and I heard the music incessantly playing one tune, and saw Dora incessantly dancing one dance, without taking the least notice of me.
14 When I undrew the curtains and looked out of bed, I saw him, in an equable temperature of respectability, unaffected by the east wind of January, and not even breathing frostily, standing my boots right and left in the first dancing position, and blowing specks of dust off my coat as he laid it down like a baby.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 15 Boys started in and out of their places, playing at puss in the corner with other boys; there were laughing boys, singing boys, talking boys, dancing boys, howling boys; boys shuffled with their feet, boys whirled about him, grinning, making faces, mimicking him behind his back and before his eyes; mimicking his poverty, his boots, his coat, his mother, everything belonging to him that they should have had consideration for.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE