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1  It looked in mine, passed across the narrow lane, and disappeared.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
2  I know how he has narrowed the circle of his sympathies and duties, in the concentration of his whole mind upon me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
3  We wheeled him off into a narrow street, where he took out his pocket-handkerchief, and stood with his back to a wall.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
4  It so happened that this chair was opposite a narrow passage, which ended in the little circular room where I had seen Uriah Heep's pale face looking out of the window.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
5  I put my hand in his, wondering who he was, and we walked away to a shop in a narrow street, on which was written OMER, DRAPER, TAILOR, HABERDASHER, FUNERAL FURNISHER, &c.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
6  Modern improvements have altered the place; but it was the last house at the bottom of a narrow street, curving down hill to the river, with some stairs at the end, where people took boat.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
7  Very stiff and sore of foot I was in the morning, and quite dazed by the beating of drums and marching of troops, which seemed to hem me in on every side when I went down towards the long narrow street.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
8  My dear Strong,' said Mr. Wickfield in a tremulous voice, 'my good friend, I needn't tell you that it has been my vice to look for some one master motive in everybody, and to try all actions by one narrow test.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
9  None of the best rooms abutted on the road; and the narrow, heavily-framed old-fashioned windows, never cheerful under any circumstances, looked very dismal, close shut, and with their blinds always drawn down.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE
10  A few dull courts and narrow ways brought us to the sky-lighted offices of Spenlow and Jorkins; in the vestibule of which temple, accessible to pilgrims without the ceremony of knocking, three or four clerks were at work as copyists.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ...
11  When I allowed him to go on a little before, on account of the narrowness of the way, I observed that he carried his head with a lofty air that was particularly unpromising; and my mind misgave me that he had found out about my darling Dora.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
12  The gentleman spoken of was a gentleman with a very unpromising squint, and a prominent chin, who had a tall white hat on with a narrow flat brim, and whose close-fitting drab trousers seemed to button all the way up outside his legs from his boots to his hips.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
13  She proceeded so quickly, when she got free of the two currents of passengers setting towards and from the bridge, that, between this and the advance she had of us when she struck off, we were in the narrow water-side street by Millbank before we came up with her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
14  When we clattered through the narrow street of Chatham, and I caught a glimpse, in passing, of the lane where the old monster lived who had bought my jacket, I stretched my neck eagerly to look for the place where I had sat, in the sun and in the shade, waiting for my money.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
15  At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over the road; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING