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1  We used to walk about that dim old flat at Yarmouth in a loving manner, hours and hours.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
2  I stopped to assure him that I had not done so in bad manners, but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ...
3  I may have a conviction, Mr. Copperfield, that Mr. Micawber's manners peculiarly qualify him for the Banking business.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
4  He brought me some chops, and vegetables, and took the covers off in such a bouncing manner that I was afraid I must have given him some offence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
5  Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
6  I forgot to mention that he would talk to himself sometimes, and grin, and clench his fist, and grind his teeth, and pull his hair in an unaccountable manner.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
7  By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
8  On the contrary, I seem to have walked along a path of flowers as far as the crocodile-book, and to have been cheered by the gentleness of my mother's voice and manner all the way.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
9  My aunt said never a word, but took her bonnet by the strings, in the manner of a sling, aimed a blow at Mr. Chillip's head with it, put it on bent, walked out, and never came back.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
10  An accidental circumstance cemented the intimacy between Steerforth and me, in a manner that inspired me with great pride and satisfaction, though it sometimes led to inconvenience.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
11  I may argue within myself, that if I had a deposit at a banking-house, the manners of Mr. Micawber, as representing that banking-house, would inspire confidence, and must extend the connexion.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
12  He was a sober, steady-looking young man of retiring manners, with a comic head of hair, and eyes that were rather wide open; and he got into an obscure corner so soon, that I had some difficulty in making him out.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
13  I heard that Miss Creakle was regarded by the school in general as being in love with Steerforth; and I am sure, as I sat in the dark, thinking of his nice voice, and his fine face, and his easy manner, and his curling hair, I thought it very likely.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
14  The sun streamed in at the little window, but she sat with her own back and the back of the large chair towards it, screening the fire as if she were sedulously keeping IT warm, instead of it keeping her warm, and watching it in a most distrustful manner.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
15  On the ground-floor is Peggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-house on a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferocious manner.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
16  I thanked him, and took my seat at the board; but found it extremely difficult to handle my knife and fork with anything like dexterity, or to avoid splashing myself with the gravy, while he was standing opposite, staring so hard, and making me blush in the most dreadful manner every time I caught his eye.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
17  What ravages I committed on my favourite authors in the course of my interpretation of them, I am not in a condition to say, and should be very unwilling to know; but I had a profound faith in them, and I had, to the best of my belief, a simple, earnest manner of narrating what I did narrate; and these qualities went a long way.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
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