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1  What I suffered from that placard, nobody can imagine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
2  But, when she suffered it to break loose, it was only for a moment.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
3  We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
4  Love must suffer in this stern world; it ever had been so, it ever would be so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
5  My mother did not suffer her authority to pass from her without a shadow of protest.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
6  How much I suffered, it is, as I have said already, utterly beyond my power to tell.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T ...
7  This is not a character that I can suffer to develop itself beneath my eyes without an effort at improvement.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
8  There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
9  I was still held to be necessary to my poor mother's training, and, as one of her trials, could not be suffered to absent myself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
10  He being of the same mind, and equally reliant on her, we suffered her to take her own road, and took ours, which was towards Highgate.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
11  He suffered for this on several occasions; and particularly once, when Steerforth laughed in church, and the Beadle thought it was Traddles, and took him out.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
12  I understood him to add that she was parting amidships, and I could readily suppose so, for the rolling and beating were too tremendous for any human work to suffer long.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
13  I don't watch his eye in idleness, but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether it will be my turn to suffer, or somebody else's.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
14  The raging agonies I suffer on the night of the Race Ball, where I know the eldest Miss Larkins will be dancing with the military, ought to have some compensation, if there be even-handed justice in the world.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
15  But instead of sitting in her usual manner, holding her glass upon her knee, she suffered it to stand neglected on the chimney-piece; and, resting her left elbow on her right arm, and her chin on her left hand, looked thoughtfully at me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
16  Here my self-support gave way all at once; and with a movement of my hands, intended to show her my ragged state, and call it to witness that I had suffered something, I broke into a passion of crying, which I suppose had been pent up within me all the week.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
17  Even when dislodged, he still kept the letter in his mouth; and on my endeavouring to take it from him, at the imminent risk of being bitten, he kept it between his teeth so pertinaciously as to suffer himself to be held suspended in the air by means of the document.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
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