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1  The poker got into my dozing thoughts besides, and wouldn't come out.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
2  I had abundant occupation for my thoughts, in every conspicuous landmark on the road.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
3  Nor had I much time for the clearing of my thoughts, as Mr. Quinion was to go upon the morrow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
4  And yet my thoughts were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon my heart, but idly loitering near it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
5  These thoughts, and a hundred other such thoughts, turned me burning hot, and made me giddy with apprehension and dismay.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
6  I haunted them, as my memory had often done, and lingered among them as my younger thoughts had lingered when I was far away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
7  All this I observed, sitting at the table in the corner with my head leaning on my hand, and my thoughts running on very different things.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
8  Mr. Peggotty and Ham knew what was in my thoughts as well as I did, and were ready with some supper and their hospitable faces to drive it away.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
9  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
10  It appeared to me that he never thought of being observed by anyone; but was so intent upon her, and upon his own thoughts in connexion with her, as to be quite absorbed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
11  She sat at work in the window, and I sat by, with my thoughts running astray on all possible and impossible results of Mr. Murdstone's visit, until pretty late in the afternoon.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
12  I know what a multitude of things he has shut out for my sake, and how his anxious thoughts of me have shadowed his life, and weakened his strength and energy, by turning them always upon one idea.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
13  I suspect the truth to be, that the influence of Agnes was upon me, undisturbed by the sight of him; and that it was the more powerful with me, because she had so large a share in my thoughts and interest.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
14  As Mr. Wickfield glanced towards her, sitting at the tea table by Agnes, she seemed to me to avoid his look with such unwonted hesitation and timidity, that his attention became fixed upon her, as if something were suggested to his thoughts.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
15  Sometimes, I remember, I resigned myself to thoughts of home and Peggotty; and to endeavouring, in a confused blind way, to recall how I had felt, and what sort of boy I used to be, before I bit Mr. Murdstone: which I couldn't satisfy myself about by any means, I seemed to have bitten him in such a remote antiquity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
16  He was always sitting at my little window, looking out into the churchyard; and I wondered whether his rambling thoughts ever went upon any of the fancies that used to occupy mine, on the rosy mornings when I peeped out of that same little window in my night-clothes, and saw the sheep quietly feeding in the light of the rising sun.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
17  But as I had none but passing thoughts for any subject save Dora, I glanced at her, directly afterwards, and was thinking that I saw, in her prettily pettish manner, that she was not very much inclined to be particularly confidential to her companion and protector, when a bell rang, which Mr. Spenlow said was the first dinner-bell, and so carried me off to dress.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
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