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1  If Mr. Murdstone were in his best humour, I checked him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
2  The tormenting humour which was dominant there stopped them both.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
3  I told him, as majestically as I could, that I wasn't in the humour for a fowl.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
4  He said he should like it very much, and we went home arm in arm in great good humour and delight.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
5  'He was a brute to you, Traddles,' said I, indignantly; for his good humour made me feel as if I had seen him beaten but yesterday.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
6  I believe that I began to know that there was something about my aunt, notwithstanding her many eccentricities and odd humours, to be honoured and trusted in.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
7  Mrs. Chillip does go so far as to say,' pursued the meekest of little men, much encouraged, 'that what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
8  This quotation from Mr. Barkis was so appropriate, and tickled us both so much, that we laughed again and again, and were quite in a pleasant humour when we came within view of Mr. Peggotty's cottage.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
9  However I might have expressed my comprehension of it at that time, if I had been called upon, I nevertheless did clearly comprehend in my own way, that it was another name for tyranny; and for a certain gloomy, arrogant, devil's humour, that was in them both.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
10  When I see how perfectly you understand them, how exquisitely you can enter into happiness like this plain fisherman's, or humour a love like my old nurse's, I know that there is not a joy or sorrow, not an emotion, of such people, that can be indifferent to you.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
11  But his easy, spirited good humour; his genial manner, his handsome looks, his natural gift of adapting himself to whomsoever he pleased, and making direct, when he cared to do it, to the main point of interest in anybody's heart; bound her to him wholly in five minutes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
12  My occupation of Peggotty's spare-room put a constraint upon me, from which he was free: for, knowing how assiduously she attended on Mr. Barkis all day, I did not like to remain out late at night; whereas Steerforth, lying at the Inn, had nothing to consult but his own humour.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE