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1  Horror was depicted on every countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Master Bates followed, with a thoughtful countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  But the old gentleman could recall no one countenance of which Oliver's features bore a trace.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  The Jew was no sooner alone, than his countenance resumed its former expression of anxiety and thought.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  She seemed to speak the truth; her countenance was white and agitated; and she trembled with very earnestness.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  'Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum,' said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  At first, the Jew contented himself with patiently watching his countenance, as if to gain from its expression some clue to the intelligence he brought; but in vain.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Mr. Brownlow looked apprehensively at Mr. Bumble's pursed-up countenance; and requested him to communicate what he knew regarding Oliver, in as few words as possible.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  The ends of his white neckerchief were twisted into a ball about the size of an orange; the variety of shapes into which his countenance was twisted, defy description.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  He disclosed, when he had done so, a broad heavy countenance with a beard of three days' growth, and two scowling eyes; one of which displayed various parti-coloured symptoms of having been recently damaged by a blow.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  Oliver was about to say that he would go along with anybody with great readiness, when, glancing upward, he caught sight of Mrs. Mann, who had got behind the beadle's chair, and was shaking her fist at him with a furious countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
14  It is difficult for a large-headed, small-eyed youth, of lumbering make and heavy countenance, to look dignified under any circumstances; but it is more especially so, when superadded to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow smalls.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
15  'You're a rough speaker, my friend, but you look an honest, open-hearted man,' said the old gentleman: turning his spectacles in the direction of the candidate for Oliver's premium, whose villainous countenance was a regular stamped receipt for cruelty.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
16  Now, the old gentleman came in as brisk as need be; but, he had no sooner raised his spectacles on his forehead, and thrust his hands behind the skirts of his dressing-gown to take a good long look at Oliver, than his countenance underwent a very great variety of odd contortions.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
17  The countenance of the first-named gentleman, peculiarly intelligent at all times, acquired great additional interest from his close observance of the game, and his attentive perusal of Mr. Chitling's hand; upon which, from time to time, as occasion served, he bestowed a variety of earnest glances: wisely regulating his own play by the result of his observations upon his neighbour's cards.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
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