1 It quite lights up these old rooms.
2 In a moment the butcher lights ten thousand candles out of my left eyebrow.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 3 Here we stopped, breathless with our ascent, and she placed her hand lightly on my lips.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 4 I acceded to this the more readily, because I now reproached myself with having treated her former letter rather lightly.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY 5 It was impossible to say to that sweet little surprised face, otherwise than lightly and playfully, that we must work to live.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 6 There was an abundance of bright lights, and there was music, and there were ladies down in the boxes, and I don't know what more.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION 7 From the windows of my room I saw all London lying in the distance like a great vapour, with here and there some lights twinkling through it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME 8 Steerforth was pretty sure to be there expecting me, and we went on together through the frosty air and gathering fog towards the twinkling lights of the town.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 9 It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect how eager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspected what I did leave for ever.
10 The well-known shops, however, with their cheerful lights, did something for me; and when I alighted at the door of the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, I had recovered my spirits.
11 We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading streets.
12 She was lightly dressed; looked bold, and haggard, and flaunting, and poor; but seemed, for the time, to have given all that to the wind which was blowing, and to have nothing in her mind but going after them.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 13 We achieved the rest of our journey pleasantly, sometimes recurring to Doctors' Commons, and anticipating the distant days when I should be a proctor there, which Steerforth pictured in a variety of humorous and whimsical lights, that made us both merry.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ... 14 They left me at the gate, not easily or lightly; and it was a strange sight to me to see the cart go on, taking Peggotty away, and leaving me under the old elm-trees looking at the house, in which there was no face to look on mine with love or liking any more.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR 15 I did not approach her solitary figure without trembling; for this gloomy end to her determined walk, and the way in which she stood, almost within the cavernous shadow of the iron bridge, looking at the lights crookedly reflected in the strong tide, inspired a dread within me.
16 Conversing with her, and hearing her sing, was such a delightful reminder to me of my happy life in the grave old house she had made so beautiful, that I could have remained there half the night; but, having no excuse for staying any longer, when the lights of Mr. Waterbrook's society were all snuffed out, I took my leave very much against my inclination.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 17 One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.