1 Agnes laughingly put back some scattered locks of his grey hair, that he might see us better.
2 I was none too soon; for the boat-builder, with a lantern in his hand, was locking the yard-gate.
3 Always proceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth, as if the jaw were locked and the face frozen up in pain.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD 4 They pretend that Sophy has a lock of it in her desk, and is obliged to shut it in a clasped book, to keep it down.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 5 As I had a sorrowful wish to see the old place once more, before it was locked up, I engaged to meet them there in the evening.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 6 He cut her face right open, and pounded her in the most brutal manner, when she took him; but she never loosed her hold till he was locked up.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS 7 He sneaked back into his cell, amidst a little chorus of approbation; and both Traddles and I experienced a great relief when he was locked in.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS 8 These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 9 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 DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 10 With the bag slung over her arm, and rattling as she waddled away, she waddled to the door, where she stopped to inquire if she should leave us a lock of her hair.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 11 Accordingly, it was locked up in his box, and drawn off by himself in a phial, and administered to me through a piece of quill in the cork, when I was supposed to be in want of a restorative.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE 12 I wanted to persuade Dora to come and see Traddles, but on my proposing it she ran off to her own room and locked herself in; so I went to Traddles without her, and walked away with him on air.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 13 But there were no other clothes in my room than the odd heap of things I wore; and when I was left there, with a little taper which my aunt forewarned me would burn exactly five minutes, I heard them lock my door on the outside.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION 14 Martha, with an astonished look, repeated her former action, and softly led me up the stairs; and then, by a little back-door which seemed to have no lock, and which she pushed open with a touch, into a small empty garret with a low sloping roof, little better than a cupboard.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 15 Not that I am vain of it, now, you mocking boy,' she says, when I smile; 'but because you used to say you thought it so beautiful; and because, when I first began to think about you, I used to peep in the glass, and wonder whether you would like very much to have a lock of it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT 16 One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION