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1  'And I don't regret it,' said Mr. Barkis.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
2  I know, with deep regret, what has brought you here.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
3  I expressed my regret for having innocently touched upon a theme that roused him so much.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
4  But I regret to state that the fright I had given him proved too much for his best attempts at concealment.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
5  'I do not,' said Mr. Micawber, 'regret my hair, and I may have been deprived of it for a specific purpose.'
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
6  But the thought came into my mind as a new reproach and new regret, when I was left so sad and lonely in the world.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
7  I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
8  But when he charged me, in return, with many messages of affection and regret for those deaf ears, he moved me more.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
9  Softened regrets they might be, teaching me what I had failed to learn when my younger life was all before me, but not the less regrets.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
10  That she does regard him with some innocent regret, with some blameless thoughts of what might have been, but for me, is, I fear, too true.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
11  I was turned over to him now, and when I saw him take his snuff and let the business go, I regretted my aunt's thousand pounds more than ever.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
12  Thoughtfully, for I could not be here once more, and so near Agnes, without the revival of those regrets with which I had so long been occupied.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
13  So powerful were these visionary considerations in my boyish mind, that I seem, according to my present way of thinking, to have left school without natural regret.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
14  It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
15  Mr. Barkis was far from being the last among them, in his regret at our departure; and I believe would even have opened the box again, and sacrificed another guinea, if it would have kept us eight-and-forty hours in Yarmouth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A ...
16  When we had engaged this domicile, I bought some cold meat at an eating-house, and took my fellow-travellers home to tea; a proceeding, I regret to state, which did not meet with Mrs. Crupp's approval, but quite the contrary.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY