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1  He came in, too, to look at a famous geranium we had, in the parlour-window.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
2  For both of these songs Mrs. Micawber had been famous when she lived at home with her papa and mama.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
3  Agnes was very cheerful; and laughingly predicted that I should soon become too famous to be talked to, on such subjects.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
4  When this dreadful exordium was over, and Tungay had stumped out again, Mr. Creakle came to where I sat, and told me that if I were famous for biting, he was famous for biting, too.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
5  How it ever came about that the Doctor began to read out scraps of the famous Dictionary, in these walks, I never knew; perhaps he felt it all the same, at first, as reading to himself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
6  Every barn in the neighbourhood, every stone in the church, and every foot of the churchyard, had some association of its own, in my mind, connected with these books, and stood for some locality made famous in them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
7  The resources of this lodging were so limited, that we found the twins, now some eight or nine years old, reposing in a turn-up bedstead in the family sitting-room, where Mr. Micawber had prepared, in a wash-hand-stand jug, what he called 'a Brew' of the agreeable beverage for which he was famous.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM