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1  He thinks you young and innocent; and so you are his friend.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
2  Yes,' returned Traddles with perfect innocence, 'it's a joke for us.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
3  The twins testified their joy by several inconvenient but innocent demonstrations.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
4  We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
5  Like enough,' he returned; 'though there's a sarcastic meaning in that observation for an amiable piece of innocence like my young friend.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
6  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
7  I knew from her own lips that she regarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owing him a great debt she ardently desired to pay.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
8  It was as if I had seen Dora, in all her fascinating artlessness, caressing Agnes, and thanking her, and coaxingly appealing against me, and loving me with all her childish innocence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
9  I cannot say what an impression this made upon me, or how impossible I found it, when I thought of her afterwards, to separate her from this look, and remember her face in its innocent loveliness again.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
10  She seemed to think she had quite settled the question, and gave me such a triumphant little kiss, direct from her innocent heart, that I would hardly have put her out of conceit with her answer, for a fortune.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER
11  Always creeping along the ground to some small end or other, he will always magnify every object in the way; and consequently will hate and suspect everybody that comes, in the most innocent manner, between him and it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
12  All my old doubts and apprehensions on that subject, all the Doctor's happiness and peace, all the mingled possibilities of innocence and compromise, that I could not unravel, I saw, in a moment, at the mercy of this fellow's twisting.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
13  But when she saw her looking at once so cheerful and so earnest, and so thoughtful, and so good, she gave a faint little cry of pleased surprise, and just put her affectionate arms round Agnes's neck, and laid her innocent cheek against her face.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
14  I look back on the time I write of; I invoke the innocent figure that I dearly loved, to come out from the mists and shadows of the past, and turn its gentle head towards me once again; and I can still declare that this one little speech was constantly in my memory.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
15  The innocent beauty of her face was not as innocent to me as it had been; I mistrusted the natural grace and charm of her manner; and when I looked at Agnes by her side, and thought how good and true Agnes was, suspicions arose within me that it was an ill-assorted friendship.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
16  As it was, an interval occurred before I fully knew my own distress; an interval, in which I even supposed that its sharpest pangs were past; and when my mind could soothe itself by resting on all that was most innocent and beautiful, in the tender story that was closed for ever.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
17  Also, how the Doctor's cogitating manner was attributable to his being always engaged in looking out for Greek roots; which, in my innocence and ignorance, I supposed to be a botanical furor on the Doctor's part, especially as he always looked at the ground when he walked about, until I understood that they were roots of words, with a view to a new Dictionary which he had in contemplation.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
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