1 He said he thought it was human nature.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ... 2 I knew what the devotion of her nature was.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 3 I was not angry with them; I was more afraid of them, as if I were cast away among creatures with whom I had no community of nature.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 4 It was occasioned, I suppose, by the reverend nature of respectability in the abstract, but I felt particularly young in this man's presence.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 5 I was sufficiently ill at ease, Heaven knows; but it was not in my nature to complain much at that time of my life, so I said I was very well, and hoped he was.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 6 He described it as an apartment of the most sumptuous nature, and said that he had drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 7 These reminded me, in reference to Miss Murdstone's nature, of the fetters over a jail door; suggesting on the outside, to all beholders, what was to be expected within.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 8 I take it, that had its effect upon me, as a touch of nature; but the skill with which the one followed up whatever the other said, was a touch of art which I was still less proof against.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 9 I could not doubt that this person was the person of whom he had made such mysterious mention, though what the nature of his hold upon my aunt could possibly be, I was quite unable to imagine.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ... 10 Traddles still remained, perhaps, but it was very doubtful; and I had not sufficient confidence in his discretion or good luck, however strong my reliance was on his good nature, to wish to trust him with my situation.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION 11 Indeed, we were all more or less amused, except that miserable Mrs. Gummidge, whose courtship would appear to have been of an exactly parallel nature, she was so continually reminded by these transactions of the old one.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 12 It was such an early day that it came soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.
13 But as most of them had, hanging up among their stock, an officer's coat or two, epaulettes and all, I was rendered timid by the costly nature of their dealings, and walked about for a long time without offering my merchandise to anyone.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION 14 By this time, however, I knew that his restless nature and bold spirits delighted to find a vent in rough toil and hard weather, as in any other means of excitement that presented itself freshly to him; so none of his proceedings surprised me.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 15 In effect, we presently heard him uttering suppressed groans of the most dismal nature, as this magpie proceeding racked him in every joint; but while Peggotty's eyes were full of compassion for him, she said his generous impulse would do him good, and it was better not to check it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 16 Very well satisfied with the dreamy nature of this retreat, I informed Mr. Spenlow that I had seen enough for that time, and we rejoined my aunt; in company with whom I presently departed from the Commons, feeling very young when I went out of Spenlow and Jorkins's, on account of the clerks poking one another with their pens to point me out.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ... 17 There was a good deal of competition in the Commons on all points of display, and it turned out some very choice equipages then; though I always have considered, and always shall consider, that in my time the great article of competition there was starch: which I think was worn among the proctors to as great an extent as it is in the nature of man to bear.
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