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1  But the first boy seems to me a mighty creature, dwelling afar off, whose giddy height is unattainable.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
2  I am glad to dwell upon the earnestness and love with which she lifted up her face to mine, and did so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
3  No, really, my dear Doctor, you must excuse me if I appear to dwell on this rather, because I feel so very strongly.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
4  Altogether, it was a scene I could not help dwelling on with pleasure, for a long time after I got back and had wished Traddles good night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
5  You touch a point that my thoughts have been dwelling on since yesterday,' said I, 'but on which I can give you no information yet, Mr. Omer.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
6  It was a fine morning, and early, and I thought I would go and take a stroll down one of those wire-arched walks, and indulge my passion by dwelling on her image.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
7  My aunt walked into that story, and walked out of it, a dread and awful personage; but there was one little trait in her behaviour which I liked to dwell on, and which gave me some faint shadow of encouragement.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ...
8  With a washerwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlour-window, dwelling next door, and a Bow-street officer residing over the way, you may imagine that his society is a source of consolation to myself and to Mrs. Micawber.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
9  She laid her hand on my arm, and hurried me on to one of the sombre streets, of which there are several in that part, where the houses were once fair dwellings in the occupation of single families, but have, and had, long degenerated into poor lodgings let off in rooms.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE