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1  His deportment would have been fierce in a butcher or a brandy-merchant.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
2  Then he laughed about her, and asked me if I had ever seen such a fierce little piece of incomprehensibility.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
3  I was seriously affected, without knowing how much, by late events; and my long exposure to the fierce wind had confused me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
4  She gave me the idea of some fierce thing, that was dragging the length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track, and wearing its heart out.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
5  There is one cock who gets upon a post to crow, and seems to take particular notice of me as I look at him through the kitchen window, who makes me shiver, he is so fierce.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
6  As slumber gradually stole upon me, I heard the wind howling out at sea and coming on across the flat so fiercely, that I had a lazy apprehension of the great deep rising in the night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
7  It was a sombre evening, with a lurid light in the sky; and as I saw the prospect scowling in the distance, with here and there some larger object starting up into the sullen glare, I fancied it was no inapt companion to the memory of this fierce woman.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE