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1  'Not much, I fear,' returned my mother.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
2  I have taken with fear and trembling to authorship.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
3  I really had some fear of Mr. Micawber's dying on the spot.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
4  I used to fear that I was so unsuited to your learning and wisdom.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
5  I was moved by no interested or selfish motive, nor was I moved by fear of him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
6  I thought she had had some fear that her unhappy father might be in some way to blame for what had happened.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
7  But for very shame, and the fear that it might displease him, I could have held him round the neck and cried.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
8  'Doen't fear me being any hindrance to you, I have no more to say, ma'am,' he remarked, as he moved towards the door.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
9  'For being quite alone and dependent on myself in this rough world again, yes, I fear he did indeed,' sobbed my mother.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
10  She kept the bouquet close to her on the cushion, and wouldn't allow Jip to sit on that side of her at all, for fear he should crush it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
11  That she does regard him with some innocent regret, with some blameless thoughts of what might have been, but for me, is, I fear, too true.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
12  I have begun to fear, remotely, that the day may never shine, when I shall see my child-wife running in the sunlight with her old friend Jip.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
13  When he did throw his head back, and take it off quick, I had a horrible fear, I confess, of seeing him meet the fate of the lamented Mr. Topsawyer, and fall lifeless on the carpet.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
14  Again, I wonder with a sudden fear whether it is likely that our good old clergyman can be wrong, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone right, and that all the angels in Heaven can be destroying angels.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
15  You and your aunt will excuse me, Copperfield, if I touch upon a painful theme, as I greatly fear I shall,' said Traddles, hesitating; 'but I think it necessary to bring it to your recollection.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
16  He quite laughed when I asked him the question, and said there was no fear; no man in his senses, or out of them, would put off in such a gale of wind, least of all Ham Peggotty, who had been born to seafaring.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
17  Meaning nothing but a certain matured frivolity and selfishness, not always inseparable from full-blown years, I think she confirmed him in his fear that he was a constraint upon his young wife, and that there was no congeniality of feeling between them, by so strongly commending his design of lightening the load of her life.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
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