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1  I was equally at a loss to express my emotions.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
2  'You are very young to know so great a loss,' she returned.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
3  There would have been loss, disgrace, I don't know what at all.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
4  The loss, Micawber,' observed his wife, 'has been my family's, not yours.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
5  At first it was a heavy sense of loss and sorrow, wherein I could distinguish little else.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
6  She was happy to see me so happy, and promised to call on Dora's aunts without loss of time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
7  I had never been brought up to any profession, and at first I was at a loss what to do for myself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
8  'It's not the first loss I have had in my life, Mr. Murdstone,' replied Peggotty, trembling from head to foot.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
9  Her idea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me, even for the loss of my friend.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
10  The old unhappy loss or want of something had, I am conscious, some place in my heart; but not to the embitterment of my life.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
11  It was so great a change: so great a loss, I felt it, at first,' said Annie, still preserving the same look and tone, 'that I was agitated and distressed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
12  I believe I may have heard some whisper of that distant thought, in the old unhappy loss or want of something never to be realized, of which I had been sensible.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
13  Here I sat down on a doorstep, quite spent and exhausted with the efforts I had already made, and with hardly breath enough to cry for the loss of my box and half-guinea.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
14  He accompanied me a good part of the way; and when we parted, with a prayer for the success of this fresh effort, there was a new and thoughtful compassion in him that I was at no loss to interpret.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
15  But he looked such a very obdurate butcher as he stood scraping the great block in the shop, and moreover, his appearance was so little improved by the loss of a front tooth which I had knocked out, that I thought it best to make no advances.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
16  She was tender-hearted, too; for when, as we sat round the fire after tea, an allusion was made by Mr. Peggotty over his pipe to the loss I had sustained, the tears stood in her eyes, and she looked at me so kindly across the table, that I felt quite thankful to her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
17  The business had been indifferent under Mr. jorkins, before Mr. Spenlow's time; and although it had been quickened by the infusion of new blood, and by the display which Mr. Spenlow made, still it was not established on a sufficiently strong basis to bear, without being shaken, such a blow as the sudden loss of its active manager.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
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