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1  After which, he was grave for a minute or so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ...
2  'Yes,' said my aunt, with a grave look, and her forefinger held up.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
3  My aunt and I had held many grave deliberations on the calling to which I should be devoted.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
4  As Peggotty was wont to tell me, long ago, the followers of my father to the same grave were made ready in the same room.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
5  Now, Mr. Dick,' said my aunt, with her grave look, and her forefinger up as before, 'I am going to ask you another question.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
6  I thought of my father's grave in the churchyard, by our house, and of my mother lying there beneath the tree I knew so well.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
7  Mr. Dick took his finger out of his mouth, on this hint, and stood among the group, with a grave and attentive expression of face.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
8  She had lost her mother before her father; and where her father's grave was no one knew, except that it was somewhere in the depths of the sea.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
9  As I went up to my airy old room, the grave shadow of the staircase seemed to fall upon my doubts and fears, and to make the past more indistinct.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
10  You have a good deal of intelligence for a little fellow,' he said, with a grave smile that belonged to him, 'and you understood me very well, I see.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
11  He is better able to judge of it than I am; for I very well know that I am a weak, light, girlish creature, and that he is a firm, grave, serious man.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
12  The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
13  I thought afresh of the grave in the churchyard, underneath the tree: and it seemed as if the house were dead too, now, and all connected with my father and mother were faded away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
14  But I know that when I saw her turn round, in the grave light of the old staircase, and wait for us, above, I thought of that window; and I associated something of its tranquil brightness with Agnes Wickfield ever afterwards.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
15  I had no pleasure in thinking, any more, of the grave old broad-leaved aloe-trees, which remained shut up in themselves a hundred years together, and of the trim smooth grass-plot, and the stone urns, and the Doctor's walk, and the congenial sound of the Cathedral bell hovering above them all.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
16  Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors' names upon the doors, to be the official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dull room, not unlike a chapel to my thinking, on the left hand.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ...
17  Conversing with her, and hearing her sing, was such a delightful reminder to me of my happy life in the grave old house she had made so beautiful, that I could have remained there half the night; but, having no excuse for staying any longer, when the lights of Mr. Waterbrook's society were all snuffed out, I took my leave very much against my inclination.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
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