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1  Since a year after my father's death.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
2  He beat me then, as if he would have beaten me to death.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
3  Barkis's death needn't put it off much, but his lingering might.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
4  Anyhow, from India tidings of his death reached home, within ten years.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
5  I deplored the untimely death of Mr. Spenlow, most sincerely, and shed tears in doing so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
6  In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
7  Some thinks,' he said, 'as her affection was ill-bestowed; some, as her marriage was broken off by death.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 63. A VISITOR
8  I was still giddy with the shock of my mother's death, and in a kind of stunned state as to all tributary things.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
9  From the moment of my knowing of the death of my mother, the idea of her as she had been of late had vanished from me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
10  I lifted up the leaden hand, and held it to my heart; and all the world seemed death and silence, broken only by his mother's moaning.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
11  Our niece's position, or supposed position, is much changed by our brother Francis's death,' said Miss Lavinia; 'and therefore we consider our brother's opinions as regarded her position as being changed too.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
12  He was carried to the nearest house; and, no one preventing me now, I remained near him, busy, while every means of restoration were tried; but he had been beaten to death by the great wave, and his generous heart was stilled for ever.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
13  A profound impression was made upon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly becoming hushed as death when Mr. Creakle entered after breakfast, and stood in the doorway looking round upon us like a giant in a story-book surveying his captives.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE