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1  Yes,' pursued my aunt, 'and he has done a pretty piece of business.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
2  'And nice people they were, who had the audacity to call him mad,' pursued my aunt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
3  Time will go fast with you, Mr. Jack Maldon,' pursued the Doctor, 'and fast with all of us.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
4  He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
5  To answer it in person, however inconvenient the journey,' pursued Mr. Murdstone, 'rather than by letter.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
6  'So Em'ly writes in pencil on a bit of paper,' he pursued, 'and gives it to her out o' winder to bring here.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
7  He seemed to pursue her figure through the narrative, and to let every other shape go by him, as if it were nothing.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
8  Not that her happiness was of long duration,' pursued Traddles, 'for, unfortunately, within a week another execution came in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
9  The waiter, who I supposed had lived in his churchwarden's pew for forty years, could not pursue such an insignificant subject.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
10  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
11  Consequently,' pursued Mr. Omer, 'Em'ly's still a little down, and a little fluttered; perhaps, upon the whole, she's more so than she was.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
12  'So my son took, of his own will, and on no compulsion, to the course in which he can always, when it is his pleasure, outstrip every competitor,' she pursued.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
13  Afraid of offending him by pursuing the subject when he made so light of it, I only pursued it in my thoughts as we went on at even a quicker pace than before.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
14  If you'll have the goodness to keep my secret, Master Copperfield,' he pursued, 'and not, in general, to go against me, I shall take it as a particular favour.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
15  It has occurred to me,' pursued my aunt, 'that a little change, and a glimpse of life out of doors, may be useful in helping you to know your own mind, and form a cooler judgement.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
16  At the time I speak of, as the time when papa spoke to me,' pursued Agnes, 'he had told papa that he was going away; that he was very sorry, and unwilling to leave, but that he had better prospects.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
17  He spoke, I thought, as if he were weary, or dissatisfied with something; but I did not pursue the question in my mind, for dinner was just then announced, and we went down and took the same seats as before.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
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