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1  'She's the most ridiculous creature that ever was born,' said my aunt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
2  I don't think I made myself very ridiculous, but I know I was resolute.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
3  You are as jealous of Miss Murdstone as it is possible for a ridiculous creature to be.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
4  To this hour I am undecided whether it was upon the whole the wisest thing I could have done, or the most ridiculous.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
5  The idea of dressing one's self, or doing anything in the way of action, in that state of love, was a little too ridiculous.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
6  I knew, from the first moment when I saw her with that poor dear blessed baby of a mother of yours, that she was the most ridiculous of mortals.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
7  Now, Dora, my love,' I returned, gently trying to remove the handkerchief she pressed to her eyes, 'this is not only very ridiculous of you, but very wrong.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
8  My dear, you absolutely are, on some subjects, one of the most ridiculous persons in the world,' returned her mother, 'and perhaps the most unnatural to the claims of your own family.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
9  I think of the number of yards of net in Miss Murdstone's cap, or of the price of Mr. Murdstone's dressing-gown, or any such ridiculous problem that I have no business with, and don't want to have anything at all to do with.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE