All 19 Uses of
afflict
in
David Copperfield
- I look up at the monumental tablets on the wall, and try to think of Mr. Bodgers late of this parish, and what the feelings of Mrs. Bodgers must have been, when affliction sore, long time Mr. Bodgers bore, and physicians were in vain.†
Chpt 1-3
- That honest creature was in deep affliction, I remember, and must have become quite buttonless on the occasion; for a little volley of those explosives went off, when, after having made it up with my mother, she kneeled down by the elbow-chair, and made it up with me.†
Chpt 1-3
- In the monotony of my life, and in my constant apprehension of the re-opening of the school, it was such an insupportable affliction!†
Chpt 4-6 *
- I am sensible of having felt that a dignity attached to me among the rest of the boys, and that I was important in my affliction.†
Chpt 7-9
- The impending shadow of a great affliction, and a great disgrace that had no distinct form in it yet, fell like a stain upon the quiet place where I had worked and played as a boy, and did it a cruel wrong.†
Chpt 19-21
- She came up to me one evening, when I was very low, to ask (she being then afflicted with the disorder I have mentioned) if I could oblige her with a little tincture of cardamums mixed with rhubarb, and flavoured with seven drops of the essence of cloves, which was the best remedy for her complaint; — or, if I had not such a thing by me, with a little brandy, which was the next best.†
Chpt 25-27
- Mr. Peggotty was so far sensible of HIS affliction, that he wrung his hand; but, otherwise, he remained in the same state, and no one dared to disturb him.†
Chpt 31-33
- In short I left her, when I went away at night, the prop and staff of Mr. Peggotty's affliction; and I could not meditate enough upon the lesson that I read in Mrs. Gummidge, and the new experience she unfolded to me.†
Chpt 31-33
- But her face, as she turned it up to mine, was so earnest; and when I relieved her of the umbrella (which would have been an inconvenient one for the Irish Giant), she wrung her little hands in such an afflicted manner; that I rather inclined towards her.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'How can you bear to trample on his undeserved affliction!'†
Chpt 31-33
- I could not help feeling, though she mingled her tears with mine, that she had a dreadful luxury in our afflictions.†
Chpt 37-39
- With loves from the children, and a smile from the happily-unconscious stranger, I remain, dear Mr. Copperfield, Your afflicted, 'EMMA MICAWBER.'†
Chpt 40-42
- My poor little wife was in such affliction when she thought I should be annoyed, and in such a state of joy when she found I was not, that the discomfiture I had subdued, very soon vanished, and we passed a happy evening; Dora sitting with her arm on my chair while Traddles and I discussed a glass of wine, and taking every opportunity of whispering in my ear that it was so good of me not to be a cruel, cross old boy.†
Chpt 43-45
- In short, Dora was so afflicted, and so afflicted me by being in that condition, that I felt it was of no use repeating this kind of effort, though never so mildly, and I must take some other course.†
Chpt 46-48
- In short, Dora was so afflicted, and so afflicted me by being in that condition, that I felt it was of no use repeating this kind of effort, though never so mildly, and I must take some other course.†
Chpt 46-48
- If the events I go on to relate, had not thickened around me, in the beginning to confuse, and in the end to augment, my affliction, it is possible (though I think not probable), that I might have fallen at once into this condition.†
Chpt 52-54
- 'Miss Dartle,' said I, 'if you can be so obdurate as not to feel for this afflicted mother —'†
Chpt 55-57
- She knew (she said) how such a nature as mine would turn affliction to good.†
Chpt 58-60
- You've been visited with affliction, and I hope it may do you good; but you'd better have come here.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(afflict) cause suffering -- such as illness, pain, or unhappiness