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  • "Begging your pardon, Master Copperfield, I'm a very umble person, my opinions are likewise very umble, I am the umblest blogger going, I run a numble webpage, a very numble page, I do assure you."

    Are we there yet? 2005

  • "Begging your pardon, Master Copperfield, I'm a very umble person, my opinions are likewise very umble, I am the umblest blogger going, I run a numble webpage, a very numble page, I do assure you."

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • Mister Copperfield, but the other comes so natural, I don't like that you should put a constraint upon yourself to ask a numble person like me to your ouse. '

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • I mustn't be put upon, as a numble person, too much.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • I'm going out with the tide, lad -- you 'll dig me a numble grave,

    A Nonsense Anthology Carolyn Wells 1902

  • I could not aim to become the master of a little cottage, which, however numble, I might call my own; to be the lord of one poor acre, which however small or barren, might still be mine

    The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive 1852

  • 'Oh, really, Master Copperfield,' he rejoined-'I beg your pardon, Mister Copperfield, but the other comes so natural, I don't like that you should put a constraint upon yourself to ask a numble person like me to your ouse. '

    David Copperfield 1850

  • We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.

    David Copperfield 1850

  • I mustn't be put upon, as a numble person, too much.

    David Copperfield 1850

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