Sample Sentences forDavid Copperfield (editor-reviewed)
David Copperfield as in: the novel
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David Copperfield epitomizes the coming-of-age autobiography: a narrator looks back on childhood hardships, formative relationships, and hard-won lessons that shape the adult he becomes.David Copperfield = Dickens's coming-of-age novel
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (source)
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Mrs. Nightwing sits in her chair, reading David Copperfield aloud to the younger girls. (source)
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She's already plowed through Oliver Twist and is deep into David Copperfield when Vivian squeaks.† (source)
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They'd read Ivanhoe together, taking turns, and then David Copperfield.† (source)
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David Copperfield.† (source)
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Would someone read to us from David Copperfield?† (source)
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Who wants to start us off on last night's reading of David Copperfield?'† (source)
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I thought of David Copperfield working fourteen hours a day in a London factory.† (source)
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David Copperfield had a tough time and was apprenticed to Mr. Micawber who believed everything would turn out well.† (source)
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'David Copperfield,' said Mrs. Creakle, leading me to a sofa, and sitting down beside me.† (source)
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The comparison between Falstaff and Prospero is like the comparison between Micawber and David Copperfield.† (source)
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"To make certain the afternoon is an educational one after all," Miss Moore says, glancing at Cecily, "I shall read aloud from David Copperfield." (source)David Copperfield = Dickens's coming-of-age novel
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We'd been just about to start Wuthering Heights, a novel she'd promised would be a vast improvement over David Copperfield, which she'd dragged us through like a death march for the last few weeks.† (source)
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After class I curled up in a hammock strung between two cedar trees with a dog-eared copy of Dickens's David Copperfield.† (source)
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'David Copperfield,' said Miss Murdstone, beckoning me aside into a window.† (source)
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Magic was stage shows with rabbits and doves and sometimes tigers, and David Copperfield sawing people in half and levitating over the audience. (source)David Copperfield = a stage magician by that name
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In mid-November, they'd driven to the RBC Center in Raleigh to see David Copperfield perform onstage. (source)
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