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  • Chillip, looking mildly at my aunt with his head on one side, and making her a little bow, said, in allusion to the jewellers’ cotton, as he softly touched his left ear—84

    I. I Am Born 1917

  • Chillip laid his head a little more on one side, and looked at my aunt like an amiable bird.

    I. I Am Born 1917

  • Chillip could do nothing after this, but sit and look at her feebly, as she sat and looked at the fire, until he was called up-stairs again.

    I. I Am Born 1917

  • Chillip was so alarmed by her abruptness—as he told my mother afterwards—that it was a mercy he didn’t lose his presence of mind.

    I. I Am Born 1917

  • Mr. Murdstone delivers public addresses sometimes, and it is said, - in short, sir, it is said by Mr.. Chillip, - that the darker tyrant he has lately been, the more ferocious is his doctrine. '

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt’s manner; so he made her a little bow, and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.

    I. I Am Born 1917

  • Mr.. Chillip, 'he proceeded, in the calmest and slowest manner,' quite electrified me, by pointing out that Mr. Murdstone sets up an image of himself, and calls it the Divine Nature.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Mercy Pecksniff laughs at every word, Mark Tapley is nothing but jolly, Mr.. Gamp talks incessantly of Mr.. Harris, Mr. Chillip is invariably timid, and Mr. Micawber is never tired of emphasizing his phrases or passing with ludicrous brusqueness from joy to grief.

    The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

  • Mr.. Chillip, 'he proceeded, in the calmest and slowest manner,' quite electrified me, by pointing out that Mr. Murdstone sets up an image of himself, and calls it the Divine Nature.

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

  • Mr. Murdstone delivers public addresses sometimes, and it is said, - in short, sir, it is said by Mr.. Chillip, - that the darker tyrant he has lately been, the more ferocious is his doctrine. '

    David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1841

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