1 You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
2 I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
3 There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools.
4 The last I heard of him, I stopped in the mist to listen, and the file was still going.
5 I got a dreadful start, when I thought I heard the file still going; but it was only a sheep-bell.
6 And he stirred it and he tasted it; not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file.
7 He did this so that nobody but I saw the file; and when he had done it he wiped the file and put it in a breast-pocket.
8 I knew it to be Joe's file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the moment I saw the instrument.
9 A dread possessed me that when I least expected it, the file would reappear.
10 Either Orlick, or the strange man who had shown me the file.
11 It almost seemed to me as if he must stoop down presently, to file at his leg.
12 He'd no more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned.
13 Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 14 The door was then thrown open, and the general population began to come in, in a long file: several waiting outside, while one entered, affixed his signature, and went out.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK... 15 The rest, like the rank and file before an engagement, though they were getting ready for the fight, sought for other distractions in the interval.