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1 He was standing close beside it, with one of his skeleton hands over his mouth, and the other resting on the Doctor's table.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
2 Poor Traddles, who had passed the stage of lying with his head upon the desk, and was relieving himself as usual with a burst of skeletons, said he didn't care.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
3 He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
4 After laying his head on the desk for a little while, he would cheer up, somehow, begin to laugh again, and draw skeletons all over his slate, before his eyes were dry.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
5 He never said who was the real offender, though he smarted for it next day, and was imprisoned so many hours that he came forth with a whole churchyard-full of skeletons swarming all over his Latin Dictionary.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
6 I used at first to wonder what comfort Traddles found in drawing skeletons; and for some time looked upon him as a sort of hermit, who reminded himself by those symbols of mortality that caning couldn't last for ever.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
7 I don't know what good he thought it would do me, for I had one of my own: but it was all he had to lend, poor fellow, except a sheet of letter-paper full of skeletons; and that he gave me at parting, as a soother of my sorrows and a contribution to my peace of mind.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
8 He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise.
David CopperfieldBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING