1 This was a dire blow to poor Elizabeth, who had relied with firmness upon Justine's innocence.
2 Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat.
3 I struggled vainly for firmness sufficient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remaining strength; I sank on the chair and sobbed aloud.
4 I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
5 No, sir," she replied with firmness, "I shall NOT stay.
6 She might be firm, and must be; but only in bearing their firmness, and firmly believing there was no other firmness upon earth.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 7 Why, Jane, we can hardly expect Clara to bear, with perfect firmness, the worry and torment that David has occasioned her today.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 8 These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 9 This was all the consolation that her firmness administered to me.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 10 I am convinced,' said my aunt, laying her hand with melancholy firmness on the table, 'that Dick's character is not a character to keep the donkeys off.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI... 11 I belong to a family remarkable, I believe, for some firmness; and I am not the creature of circumstance or change.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 12 I explained with tolerable firmness, that I really did not know where my means of subsistence were to come from, unless I could earn them for myself.
13 As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 14 I tried to bring her idea before him in any form; I even reproached him with not having firmness to spare her the knowledge of such a scene as this.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 15 In his walk, in his gestures, in the sound of his voice there was a determination and firmness such as his wife had never seen in him.