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1  We acknowledged his politeness, and made suitable replies.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
2  I acknowledged this compliment, and ordered the negus, which was soon produced.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
3  I knew that he was a widower with one daughter, and expressed my acknowledgements.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
4  My heart sank within me as I acknowledged the undoubted accuracy of this description.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
5  Littimer touched his hat in acknowledgement of my good opinion, and I felt about eight years old.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ...
6  I don't mind acknowledging to you that I've got rather a grudging disposition, and want to keep off all intruders.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
7  'I think our schoolmaster might have made them happier, without doing any harm to any of us, I acknowledge,' I returned.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
8  I'm umbly thankful to you, sir,' said Mrs. Heep, in acknowledgement of my inquiries concerning her health, 'but I'm only pretty well.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
9  I should get up, sir, to acknowledge such an honour as this visit,' said he, 'only my limbs are rather out of sorts, and I am wheeled about.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
10  I bowed my acknowledgements, and said, my aunt had mentioned to me that there was that opening, and that I believed I should like it very much.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ...
11  Mr. Barkis rubbed his cheek with his cuff, and then looked at his cuff as if he expected to find some of the bloom upon it; but made no other acknowledgement of the compliment.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
12  We all acknowledged that we felt this something of a disappointment; but Mrs. Gummidge said she felt it more than we did, and shed tears again, and made that former declaration with great bitterness.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
13  We acknowledged his kindness; and he begged us to forgive his having launched into these practical and business-like details, and to excuse it as natural in one who was making entirely new arrangements in life.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
14  Mr. Peggotty, with the shadows of the leaves playing athwart his face, made a surprised inclination of the head towards my aunt, as an acknowledgement of her good opinion; then took up the thread he had relinquished.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
15  In acknowledgement of this question, addressed to him with extraordinary curtness, Mr. Heep, uncomfortably clutching the blue bag he carried, replied that he was pretty well, he thanked my aunt, and hoped she was the same.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
16  Mr. Spenlow did not appear to know what the connexion between Mr. Murdstone and myself was; which I was glad of, for I could not bear to acknowledge him, even in my own breast, remembering what I did of the history of my poor mother.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
17  I must acknowledge that I felt it difficult to picture him quite at his ease in the raiment proposed for him by his grateful little niece, and that I was particularly doubtful of the policy of the cocked hat; but I kept these sentiments to myself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
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