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1  A sad story, sir, however you come to know it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
2  She smiled rather sadly, I thought, and shook her head.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
3  She smiled; with a quiet sadness, I thought; and shook her head.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
4  She only shook her head; through her tears I saw the same sad quiet smile.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
5  From the accumulated sadness into which I fell, I had at length no hope of ever issuing again.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
6  Her colour came and went once more; and once more, as she bent her head, I saw the same sad smile.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. AGNES
7  The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
8  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
9  I heard that Mr. Creakle had turned him out of doors, in consequence; and that Mrs. and Miss Creakle had been in a sad way, ever since.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
10  I wore away the longest part of many wild sad nights, in those rides; reviving, as I went, the thoughts that had occupied me in my long absence.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
11  It was sad to see him struggling between his desire to represent it to me as a matter of choice on his part, and his inability to conceal that it was forced upon him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
12  I only told her there had been sad grief at Yarmouth, on account of Emily's flight; and that on me it made a double wound, by reason of the circumstances attending it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
13  Without my knowing why, these tears allied themselves with the quietly sad smile which was so fixed in my remembrance, and shook me more with hope than fear or sorrow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
14  It was with a singular jumble of sadness and pleasure that I used to linger about my native place, until the reddening winter sun admonished me that it was time to start on my returning walk.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
15  I am taken home in a sad plight, and I have beef-steaks put to my eyes, and am rubbed with vinegar and brandy, and find a great puffy place bursting out on my upper lip, which swells immoderately.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
16  I picture myself with my books shut up, still listening to the doleful performance of Mr. Mell, and listening through it to what used to be at home, and to the blowing of the wind on Yarmouth flats, and feeling very sad and solitary.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME