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1  For it was quite delightful to me, to find him so pleasant.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
2  I could hardly find the door, through the tears that stood in my eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
3  I rambled downstairs to find anything that was like itself, so altered it all seemed; and roamed into the yard.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
4  It was no relief to turn round and find nobody; for wherever my back was, there I imagined somebody always to be.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
5  He seemed to find an immense fund of reflection in this circumstance, and sat pondering and inwardly whistling for some time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
6  He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can find no description.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
7  Young or old, Davy dear, as long as I am alive and have this house over my head,' said Peggotty, 'you shall find it as if I expected you here directly minute.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
8  It was a little disconcerting to me, to find, when I was being helped up behind the coach, that I was supposed to have eaten all the dinner without any assistance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
9  And he gave me a look as he shouldered the largest box and went out, which I thought had meaning in it, if meaning could ever be said to find its way into Mr. Barkis's visage.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
10  Mr. Barkis rubbed his cheek with his cuff, and then looked at his cuff as if he expected to find some of the bloom upon it; but made no other acknowledgement of the compliment.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
11  I have thought, since, that its assuming that character was a necessary consequence of Mr. Murdstone's firmness, which wouldn't allow him to let anybody off from the utmost weight of the severest penalties he could find any excuse for.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
12  I never thought,' said Mrs. Micawber, when she came up, twin and all, to show me the apartment, and sat down to take breath, 'before I was married, when I lived with papa and mama, that I should ever find it necessary to take a lodger.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
13  It cost me some trouble to find out Salem House; but I found it, and I found a haystack in the corner, and I lay down by it; having first walked round the wall, and looked up at the windows, and seen that all was dark and silent within.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
14  This adventure frightened me so, that, afterwards, when I saw any of these people coming, I turned back until I could find a hiding-place, where I remained until they had gone out of sight; which happened so often, that I was very seriously delayed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
15  Those allied powers were considerably astonished, when they arrived within a few minutes of each other, to find an unknown lady of portentous appearance, sitting before the fire, with her bonnet tied over her left arm, stopping her ears with jewellers' cotton.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
16  I washed my hands and face, to do the greater honour to his gentility, and we walked to our house, as I suppose I must now call it, together; Mr. Micawber impressing the name of streets, and the shapes of corner houses upon me, as we went along, that I might find my way back, easily, in the morning.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
17  Every time he uttered this ejaculation, his eyes seemed to be in danger of starting out; and every sentence he spoke, he delivered in a sort of tune, always exactly the same, and more like a gust of wind, which begins low, mounts up high, and falls again, than any other comparison I can find for it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
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