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1  The carrier looked at me, as if to inquire if she were coming back.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
2  I looked at her inquiringly; but already with a foreknowledge of her meaning.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
3  I inquired about my aunt among the boatmen first, and received various answers.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
4  I turned back, and inquired of my conductor, as we went along, how Mrs. Steerforth was.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
5  Miss Dartle glanced at me, as though she would inquire if there were anything that I desired to ask.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
6  'I came out to inquire whether Annie would like to go to the opera tonight,' said Mr. Maldon, turning to her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
7  I could not disguise from myself, or from the waiter, that this was an uncomfortable coincidence, and inquired how it was done.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
8  Neither did I like to say, that I hoped he had not been too communicative to Uriah; or to inquire if they had talked much about me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
9  I was so far from being warned off from Peggotty's society, that, provided I was not in Mr. Murdstone's, I was never sought out or inquired for.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
10  To inquire what he might have done, if he had had any boldness, would be like inquiring what a mongrel cur might do, if it had the spirit of a tiger.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
11  I murmured an assent, which was full of feeling, considering that I knew nothing at all about him; and I inquired what Mr. Traddles was by profession.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
12  With the bag slung over her arm, and rattling as she waddled away, she waddled to the door, where she stopped to inquire if she should leave us a lock of her hair.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
13  Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
14  In my dread of the end of the vacation and their coming back, I could not read a boy's name, without inquiring in what tone and with what emphasis HE would read, 'Take care of him.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
15  The fly-drivers, among whom I inquired next, were equally jocose and equally disrespectful; and the shopkeepers, not liking my appearance, generally replied, without hearing what I had to say, that they had got nothing for me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
16  The only circumstance which gave me any new hope, was my aunt's stopping on the stairs to inquire about a smell of fire that was prevalent there; and janet's replying that she had been making tinder down in the kitchen, of my old shirt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
17  The tea table was ready, and our little locker was put out in its old place, but instead of coming to sit by me, she went and bestowed her company upon that grumbling Mrs. Gummidge: and on Mr. Peggotty's inquiring why, rumpled her hair all over her face to hide it, and could do nothing but laugh.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
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