1 Mrs. Micawber put on her brown gloves, and assumed a genteel languor.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET 2 If he shows his face near it, mine assumes an imploring and submissive expression.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE 3 It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY 4 We might have been a party of Ogres, the conversation assumed such a sanguine complexion.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 5 So I said, in a graver manner than any of us had yet assumed: 'She is as virtuous as she is pretty.'
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 6 'Now, for example, Mr. Traddles,' said Mrs. Micawber, assuming a profound air, 'a judge, or even say a Chancellor.'
7 The spirit of Agnes so pervaded all we thought, and said, and did, in that time of sorrow, that I assume I may refer the project to her influence.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS 8 After some poking about with this instrument, in the course of which his face assumed a variety of distracted expressions, Mr. Barkis poked it against a box, an end of which had been visible to me all the time.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 9 I have thought, since, that its assuming that character was a necessary consequence of Mr. Murdstone's firmness, which wouldn't allow him to let anybody off from the utmost weight of the severest penalties he could find any excuse for.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 10 While the visit at the Doctor's was still in progress, I observed that the postman brought two or three letters every morning for Uriah Heep, who remained at Highgate until the rest went back, it being a leisure time; and that these were always directed in a business-like manner by Mr. Micawber, who now assumed a round legal hand.