1 It was really calculated to break his spirit, he said afterwards.
2 These sums, united, make a total, if my calculation is correct, amounting to forty-one, ten, eleven and a half.
3 He pointed to Uriah, pale and glowering in a corner, evidently very much out in his calculations, and taken by surprise.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 4 I should not have been averse to do so, but that I imagined I detected trouble, and calculation relative to the extent of the cold meat, in Mrs. Micawber's eye.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES 5 Mr. jorkins, notwithstanding his reputation in the firm, was an easy-going, incapable sort of man, whose reputation out of doors was not calculated to back it up.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 6 In my forlorn state I became quite attached to the family, and used to walk about, busy with Mrs. Micawber's calculations of ways and means, and heavy with the weight of Mr. Micawber's debts.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ... 7 Being very anxious to see the dear old fellow, nevertheless, I dispatched my dinner, in a manner not at all calculated to raise me in the opinion of the chief waiter, and hurried out by the back way.
8 Adams, our head-boy, who had a turn for mathematics, had made a calculation, I was informed, of the time this Dictionary would take in completing, on the Doctor's plan, and at the Doctor's rate of going.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE