1 I occasionally made a pretence of wanting a page or two of manuscript copied.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 2 This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me.
3 Madam,' replied Mr. Micawber, 'it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. Mr. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS 4 At that moment a shadow fell on the page and Tom Sawyer stepped in at the door and caught a glimpse of the picture.
5 Becky snatched at the book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle.
6 Amy wants the rest of the page, so I must stop.
7 I began to nod drowsily over the dim page: my eye wandered from manuscript to print.
8 She turned the pages looking at pictures--mammoths, mastodons, prehistoric birds.
9 She slipped the letter from Scarborough between the pages to mark the end of the chapter, rose, smiled, and tiptoed silently out of the room.
10 Squires, pages, and yeomen in rich liveries, waited around this place of honour, which was designed for Prince John and his attendants.
11 A train of pages and of young maidens, the most beautiful who could be selected, gaily dressed in fancy habits of green and pink, surrounded a throne decorated in the same colours.
12 The Disinherited Knight had no sooner reached his pavilion, than squires and pages in abundance tendered their services to disarm him, to bring fresh attire, and to offer him the refreshment of the bath.
13 Our history must needs retrograde for the space of a few pages, to inform the reader of certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
14 Behind them followed other Companions of the Temple, with a long train of esquires and pages clad in black, aspirants to the honour of being one day Knights of the Order.
15 What Fanny told her of former times dwelt more on her mind than the pages of Goldsmith; and she paid her sister the compliment of preferring her style to that of any printed author.