1 Here are twenty thousand pounds.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 2 'A hundred and five pounds a year,' said my mother.
3 His property in money amounted to nearly three thousand pounds.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS 4 'And the premium, Stamp included, is a thousand pounds,' said Mr. Spenlow.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ... 5 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ... 6 Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ... 7 It's some time since I was articled, but the payment of that hundred pounds was a great pull.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES 8 This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me.
9 She has a couple of thousand pounds of her own, and saves the interest of it every year, to add to the principal.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME 10 'That affair of the first bond for four thousand five hundred pounds has not taken the course that was expected, Spiker,' said Mr. Gulpidge.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 11 I was turned over to him now, and when I saw him take his snuff and let the business go, I regretted my aunt's thousand pounds more than ever.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 12 He is called to the bar; and with admirable industry and self-denial has scraped another hundred pounds together, to fee a Conveyancer whose chambers he attends.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 13 I had my own old plate, with a brown view of a man-of-war in full sail upon it, which Peggotty had hoarded somewhere all the time I had been away, and would not have had broken, she said, for a hundred pounds.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON 14 He solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 15 I was completely bewildered between Mr. Spenlow and Mr. jorkins, as to which of them really was the objecting partner; but I saw with sufficient clearness that there was obduracy somewhere in the firm, and that the recovery of my aunt's thousand pounds was out of the question.
16 There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP 17 Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain.
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