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1  If you have indeed a burden on your heart, let me try to lighten it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
2  If I have ever had a burden on my heart, it has been lightened for me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
3  His homely figure seemed to be lightened up by his fidelity and generosity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
4  I felt its whole weight now; and I drooped beneath it, and I said in my heart that it could never be lightened.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
5  I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
6  With a lightened heart, though with a profound sense of the weighty importance of my task, I devoted the whole afternoon to the composition of the draft of this letter; for which great purpose, Agnes relinquished her desk to me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
7  Then I would commence a practical demonstration, to which Dora would pay profound attention, perhaps for five minutes; when she would begin to be dreadfully tired, and would lighten the subject by curling my hair, or trying the effect of my face with my shirt-collar turned down.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
8  Meaning nothing but a certain matured frivolity and selfishness, not always inseparable from full-blown years, I think she confirmed him in his fear that he was a constraint upon his young wife, and that there was no congeniality of feeling between them, by so strongly commending his design of lightening the load of her life.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS