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David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
2 Yet I dared not express my anxiety, lest it should give her offence.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
3 Frozen-out old gardeners in the flower-beds of the heart, I took a personal offence against them all.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
4 In short, I would have done anything in an honourable way rather than give Mrs. Crupp offence; and she was the terror of my life.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
5 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 CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
6 I felt uncomfortable about going down to breakfast in the morning, as I had never set eyes on Mr. Murdstone since the day when I committed my memorable offence.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
7 She received me with the utmost humility, and apologized to me for giving her son a kiss, observing that, lowly as they were, they had their natural affections, which they hoped would give no offence to anyone.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
8 It arose out of a scuffle between two churchwardens, one of whom was alleged to have pushed the other against a pump; the handle of which pump projecting into a school-house, which school-house was under a gable of the church-roof, made the push an ecclesiastical offence.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
9 I had perception enough to know that my mother was the victim always; that she was afraid to speak to me or to be kind to me, lest she should give them some offence by her manner of doing so, and receive a lecture afterwards; that she was not only ceaselessly afraid of her own offending, but of my offending, and uneasily watched their looks if I only moved.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON