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1  There were twenty score of violent deaths in one long minute of that agony of fear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  And yet he burst into an agony of childish grief, as the cottage-gate closed after him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  But the girl's voice was in his ear, beseeching him in such tones of agony to remember her, that he had not the heart to utter it.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  Oliver felt such fear come over him when he recognised the place, that, for the instant, he forgot the agony of his wound, and thought only of flight.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  Then the Jew, in an agony of impatience, watched every morsel he put into his mouth; pacing up and down the room, meanwhile, in irrepressible excitement.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  The mental agony I have suffered, during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion which, as you well know, is not one of yesterday, nor one I have lightly formed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  I had forgotten it for a moment, Oliver, but I hope I may be pardoned, for I am old, and have seen enough of illness and death to know the agony of separation from the objects of our love.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  One wretched breathless child, panting with exhaustion; terror in his looks; agony in his eyes; large drops of perspiration streaming down his face; strains every nerve to make head upon his pursuers; and as they follow on his track, and gain upon him every instant, they hail his decreasing strength with joy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X