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1  'That's a pity,' said Steerforth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
2  I told them what a hard master Mr. Creakle was, and they pitied me very much.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
3  The more I pitied myself, or pitied others, the more I sought for consolation in the image of Dora.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
4  There are decent women in the house, I am told; and it is a pity such a light as you should be among them, and concealed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
5  She looked so steadfastly at me: with a kind of doubt, or pity, or suspense in her affection: that I summoned the stronger determination to show her a perfectly cheerful face.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
6  As he spoke, there was another great cry of pity from the beach; four men arose with the wreck out of the deep, clinging to the rigging of the remaining mast; uppermost, the active figure with the curling hair.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
7  As she still stood looking fixedly at me, a twitching or throbbing, from which I could not dissociate the idea of pain, came into that cruel mark; and lifted up the corner of her lip as if with scorn, or with a pity that despised its object.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
8  Still, as we drive along in an open carriage, this fairy marriage is real enough to fill me with a sort of wondering pity for the unfortunate people who have no part in it, but are sweeping out the shops, and going to their daily occupations.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
9  A word of encouragement and explanation, of pity for my childish ignorance, of welcome home, of reassurance to me that it was home, might have made me dutiful to him in my heart henceforth, instead of in my hypocritical outside, and might have made me respect instead of hate him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE