1 You claim to have one plain motive in all you do yourself.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING 2 I don't mention it reproachfully, however, but with a motive.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME 3 'Ay, but I have only one motive in life, Miss Trotwood,' he rejoined, smiling.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING 4 I was moved by no interested or selfish motive, nor was I moved by fear of him.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE 5 I assure you I am in no danger of putting any strained construction on your motives.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE 6 But I've got a motive, as my fellow-partner used to say; and I go at it tooth and nail.
7 Our little friend here might have some motive, perhaps, for objecting to the arrangements.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING 8 'It must be a mixed motive, I think,' said Mr. Wickfield, shaking his head and smiling incredulously.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING 9 When I heard how he said it, and saw how he held her hand, I guessed what the one motive of his life was.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING 10 The young creature in pink had a mother in green; and I rather think the latter separated us from motives of policy.
11 'I looked for single motives in everyone,' said Mr. Wickfield, and I was satisfied I had bound him to me by motives of interest.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContextHighlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 12 My dear Strong,' said Mr. Wickfield in a tremulous voice, 'my good friend, I needn't tell you that it has been my vice to look for some one master motive in everybody, and to try all actions by one narrow test.