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1  Standing hard by the building was a plain hearse.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
2  It was an immense and solid building, erected at a vast expense.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
3  Salem House was a square brick building with wings; of a bare and unfurnished appearance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
4  And you couldn't so properly have said he wore a hat, as that he was covered in a-top, like an old building, with something pitchy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
5  The whole building looked to me as if it were learning to swim; it conducted itself in such an unaccountable manner, when I tried to steady it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
6  There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete old ferry-house.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
7  My echoing footsteps went to no other tune, but were as constant to that as if I had come home to build my castles in the air at a living mother's side.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
8  When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
9  Turning from the building in a downcast manner, Mr. Micawber accepted my proffered arm on one side, and the proffered arm of Traddles on the other, and walked away between us.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
10  He appeared to have settled into his original foundation, like a building; and I must confess that my faith in his ever Moving, was not much greater than if he had been a building.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
11  Coming near the beach, I saw, not only the boatmen, but half the people of the town, lurking behind buildings; some, now and then braving the fury of the storm to look away to sea, and blown sheer out of their course in trying to get zigzag back.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST