1 They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
2 With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
3 I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
4 I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.
5 I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
6 I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments.
7 But the umblest persons, Master Copperfield,' he presently resumed, 'may be the instruments of good.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 8 I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 9 My boots might be placed in any collection of instruments of torture.
10 The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency.
11 The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion.
12 Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
13 Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds.
14 He gave me the names and descriptions of all the musical instruments, and the general terms of art in playing on each of them.
15 The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.