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1  I do not wish to revive the memory of past differences, or of past outrages.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
2  'Oh yes,' I replied; I had a good memory, and I believed I recollected them very well.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
3  'I believe my breath will get long next, my memory's getting so much so,' said Mr. Omer.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
4  At odd dull times, nursery tales come up into the memory, unrecognized for what they are.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
5  It was such an uncomfortable hand, that, when I went to my room, it was still cold and wet upon my memory.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
6  Something within me, faintly answering to the storm without, tossed up the depths of my memory and made a tumult in them.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
7  I haunted them, as my memory had often done, and lingered among them as my younger thoughts had lingered when I was far away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
8  I know I did this selfishly, to have my name brought before her; but I tried to believe it was an act of justice to his memory.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
9  It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
10  We were very happy; and that evening, as the last of its race, and destined evermore to close that volume of my life, will never pass out of my memory.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
11  God knows how infantine the memory may have been, that was awakened within me by the sound of my mother's voice in the old parlour, when I set foot in the hall.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
12  This may be fancy, though I think the memory of most of us can go farther back into such times than many of us suppose; just as I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
13  It was a sombre evening, with a lurid light in the sky; and as I saw the prospect scowling in the distance, with here and there some larger object starting up into the sullen glare, I fancied it was no inapt companion to the memory of this fierce woman.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
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  At times, even his impaired power of concentrating his memory and attention on particular points of business, has recovered itself very much; and he has been able to assist us in making some things clear, that we should have found very difficult indeed, if not hopeless, without him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
16  Being a very honest little creature, and unwilling to disgrace the memory I was going to leave behind me at Murdstone and Grinby's, I considered myself bound to remain until Saturday night; and, as I had been paid a week's wages in advance when I first came there, not to present myself in the counting-house at the usual hour, to receive my stipend.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ...
17  Circumstances beyond my individual control have, for a considerable lapse of time, effected a severance of that intimacy which, in the limited opportunities conceded to me in the midst of my professional duties, of contemplating the scenes and events of the past, tinged by the prismatic hues of memory, has ever afforded me, as it ever must continue to afford, gratifying emotions of no common description.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
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