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1  Under the Prerogative Office, the country had been glorious.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
2  Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and the country would cease to be glorious.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
3  Little Em'ly had stopped and looked up at the sky in her enumeration of these articles, as if they were a glorious vision.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
4  We all went together, she before us: and a glorious old room it was, with more oak beams, and diamond panes; and the broad balustrade going all the way up to it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
5  Being, by that time, rather tired of this kind of life, and having received new provocation from the butcher, I throw the flower away, go out with the butcher, and gloriously defeat him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
6  From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
7  A sight at once so beautiful, so mournful, and so hopeful, as the glorious ship, lying, still, on the flushed water, with all the life on board her crowded at the bulwarks, and there clustering, for a moment, bare-headed and silent, I never saw.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS