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1  A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
2  There was a club in the prison, in which Mr. Micawber, as a gentleman, was a great authority.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
3  At last Mrs. Micawber resolved to move into the prison, where Mr. Micawber had now secured a room to himself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
4  The spirit fluttered for a moment on the threshold of its little prison, and, unconscious of captivity, took wing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
5  Janet reporting it to be quite ready, I was taken up to it; kindly, but in some sort like a prisoner; my aunt going in front and Janet bringing up the rear.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
6  In the evening I used to go back to the prison, and walk up and down the parade with Mr. Micawber; or play casino with Mrs. Micawber, and hear reminiscences of her papa and mama.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
7  Now, I was unwilling to put the direction-card on there, lest any of my landlord's family should fathom what I was doing, and detain me; so I said to the young man that I would be glad if he would stop for a minute, when he came to the dead-wall of the King's Bench prison.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ...
8  After some conversation among these gentlemen, from which I might have supposed that there was nothing in the world to be legitimately taken into account but the supreme comfort of prisoners, at any expense, and nothing on the wide earth to be done outside prison-doors, we began our inspection.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
9  The only changes I am conscious of are, firstly, that I had grown more shabby, and secondly, that I was now relieved of much of the weight of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber's cares; for some relatives or friends had engaged to help them at their present pass, and they lived more comfortably in the prison than they had lived for a long while out of it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
10  Now, it struck me, when we began to visit individuals in their cells, and to traverse the passages in which those cells were, and to have the manner of the going to chapel and so forth, explained to us, that there was a strong probability of the prisoners knowing a good deal about each other, and of their carrying on a pretty complete system of intercourse.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS