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1  It was a very cold day, with cutting blasts of wind.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
2  If Miss Mowcher cuts the Prince's nails, she must be all right.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
3  It had been a bitter day, and a cutting north-east wind had blown for some time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
4  He had a delight in cutting at the boys, which was like the satisfaction of a craving appetite.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
5  I wanted to be cutting at those trees in the forest of difficulty, under circumstances that should prove my strength.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
6  What I had to do, was, to take my woodman's axe in my hand, and clear my own way through the forest of difficulty, by cutting down the trees until I came to Dora.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
7  I saw the flashing black eyes, and the passion-wasted figure; and I saw the scar, with its white track cutting through her lips, quivering and throbbing as she spoke.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
8  I was in a state of ferocious virtue, however, as to young men who were not cutting down trees in the forest of difficulty; and my impression must be received with due allowance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
9  I regularly take walks outside Mr. Larkins's house in the evening, though it cuts me to the heart to see the officers go in, or to hear them up in the drawing-room, where the eldest Miss Larkins plays the harp.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
10  We went into a little back-parlour behind the shop, where we found three young women at work on a quantity of black materials, which were heaped upon the table, and little bits and cuttings of which were littered all over the floor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
11  Miss Lavinia, self-charged with the superintendence of my darling's wardrobe, is constantly cutting out brown-paper cuirasses, and differing in opinion from a highly respectable young man, with a long bundle, and a yard measure under his arm.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
12  The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air, as if there were no such thing as change on earth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
13  Every scratch in the scheme was a gnarled oak in the forest of difficulty, and I went on cutting them down, one after another, with such vigour, that in three or four months I was in a condition to make an experiment on one of our crack speakers in the Commons.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP