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1  The hearing of all this, and a good deal more, outlasted the banquet some time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
2  On the last night of my restraint, I was awakened by hearing my own name spoken in a whisper.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
3  Going down next morning rather earlier than usual, I paused outside the parlour door, on hearing my mother's voice.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
4  'I am very much obliged to you, indeed,' said Traddles, on hearing it was to be sent to where he lived, that night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
5  The difficulty had not occurred to me; though I had had my apprehensions too, when I went in, of hearing the old tune.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
6  Mr. Omer, hearing his daughter's footstep before I heard it, touched me with his pipe, and shut up one eye, as a caution.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
7  In due time, Mr. Micawber's petition was ripe for hearing; and that gentleman was ordered to be discharged under the Act, to my great joy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I ...
8  But, finding me well employed, and bearing a good character, and hearing on all hands that I rose fast in the school, she soon discontinued these visits.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
9  For all that, he brightened; and had an evident pleasure in hearing us recall the little incidents of our old life, many of which he remembered very well.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
10  Besides which, the walls were not thick, and, whenever he passed the evening at our house, we always knew of it by hearing one continual growl in the kitchen.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
11  When we all four went out walking in the afternoon, she closed her thin hand on my arm like a spring, to keep me back, while Steerforth and his mother went on out of hearing: and then spoke to me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
12  Peggotty gave it as her opinion that she even slept with one eye open; but I could not concur in this idea; for I tried it myself after hearing the suggestion thrown out, and found it couldn't be done.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
13  Peggotty continuing to stand motionless in the middle of the room, and my mother resuming her singing, I fell asleep, though I was not so sound asleep but that I could hear voices, without hearing what they said.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
14  I went up there, hearing the dog in the yard bark after me all the way while I climbed the stairs; and, looking as blank and strange upon the room as the room looked upon me, sat down with my small hands crossed, and thought.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
15  The fly-drivers, among whom I inquired next, were equally jocose and equally disrespectful; and the shopkeepers, not liking my appearance, generally replied, without hearing what I had to say, that they had got nothing for me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
16  But, on hearing from my aunt that I should sometimes come over on a Saturday, and that he could sometimes come and see me on a Wednesday, he revived; and vowed to make another kite for those occasions, of proportions greatly surpassing the present one.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
17  Conversing with her, and hearing her sing, was such a delightful reminder to me of my happy life in the grave old house she had made so beautiful, that I could have remained there half the night; but, having no excuse for staying any longer, when the lights of Mr. Waterbrook's society were all snuffed out, I took my leave very much against my inclination.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
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