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1  Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
2  I was undressing in my own room, when Mr. Micawber's letter tumbled on the floor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
3  As to me, I sat on his left hand, and the rest were grouped about us, on the nearest beds and on the floor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
4  But all pressing out of the room, in a crowd, to see what was the matter, we found her lying on the hall floor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
5  I crawled up from the floor, and saw my face in the glass, so swollen, red, and ugly that it almost frightened me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
6  We found Mr. Micawber at his desk, in the turret office on the ground floor, either writing, or pretending to write, hard.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
7  Miss Dartle placed herself in a chair, within view of the door, and looked downward, as if Emily were crouching on the floor before her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
8  Then he was gone; and the door was locked outside; and I was lying, fevered and hot, and torn, and sore, and raging in my puny way, upon the floor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
9  I think it was over the kitchen, because a warm greasy smell appeared to come up through the chinks in the floor, and there was a flabby perspiration on the walls.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
10  Afterwards, when I went upstairs, as I passed the door of my little chamber, which was dark, I had an indistinct impression of her being within it, cast down upon the floor.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
11  I believe I can remember these two at a little distance apart, dwarfed to my sight by stooping down or kneeling on the floor, and I going unsteadily from the one to the other.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
12  Arrived at Mr. Wickfield's house, I found, in the little lower room on the ground floor, where Uriah Heep had been of old accustomed to sit, Mr. Micawber plying his pen with great assiduity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
13  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
14  In the space within the horse-shoe, lower than these, that is to say, on about the level of the floor, were sundry other gentlemen, of Mr. Spenlow's rank, and dressed like him in black gowns with white fur upon them, sitting at a long green table.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ...
15  For similar reasons I made no allusion to the skirmishing plates upon the floor; or to the disreputable appearance of the castors, which were all at sixes and sevens, and looked drunk; or to the further blockade of Traddles by wandering vegetable dishes and jugs.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
16  She was soon my child-wife indeed; sitting down on the floor outside the Chinese House, ringing all the little bells one after another, to punish Jip for his recent bad behaviour; while Jip lay blinking in the doorway with his head out, even too lazy to be teased.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
17  Its panelled rooms, discoloured with the dirt and smoke of a hundred years, I dare say; its decaying floors and staircase; the squeaking and scuffling of the old grey rats down in the cellars; and the dirt and rottenness of the place; are things, not of many years ago, in my mind, but of the present instant.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
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