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1  The dog looked up, and growled.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  'When I says I will, I means I will,' replied Mr. Gamfield doggedly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Whatever was the cause, the effect was a kick and a curse, bestowed upon the dog simultaneously.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  It was lost upon Sikes, who was stooping at the moment to tie the boot-lace which the dog had torn.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and torn in twenty different places, skulked into the room.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  Mr. Sikes, being disappointed of the dog's participation, at once transferred his share in the quarrel to the new comer.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  He went on doggedly; but as he left the town behind him, and plunged into the solitude and darkness of the road, he felt a dread and awe creeping upon him which shook him to the core.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  When the outsides saw this, they put their halfpence back into their pockets again, declaring that he was an idle young dog, and didn't deserve anything; and the coach rattled away and left only a cloud of dust behind.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Mr. Bill Sikes no sooner heard the account of the expedition delivered, than he very hastily called up the white dog, and, putting on his hat, expeditiously departed: without devoting any time to the formality of wishing the company good-morning.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Mr. Sikes, finding that he was walking a short part of her way himself, expressed his intention of accompanying her; they went away together, followed, at a little distant, by the dog, who slunk out of a back-yard as soon as his master was out of sight.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  At his feet, sat a white-coated, red-eyed dog; who occupied himself, alternately, in winking at his master with both eyes at the same time; and in licking a large, fresh cut on one side of his mouth, which appeared to be the result of some recent conflict.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  Whether his meditations were so intense as to be disturbed by the dog's winking, or whether his feelings were so wrought upon by his reflections that they required all the relief derivable from kicking an unoffending animal to allay them, is matter for argument and consideration.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Every member of the respectable coterie appeared plunged in his own reflections; not excepting the dog, who by a certain malicious licking of his lips seemed to be meditating an attack upon the legs of the first gentleman or lady he might encounter in the streets when he went out.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Dogs are not generally apt to revenge injuries inflicted upon them by their masters; but Mr. Sikes's dog, having faults of temper in common with his owner, and labouring, perhaps, at this moment, under a powerful sense of injury, made no more ado but at once fixed his teeth in one of the half-boots.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
16  The dog jumped from right to left, and from left to right; snapping, growling, and barking; the man thrust and swore, and struck and blasphemed; and the struggle was reaching a most critical point for one or other; when, the door suddenly opening, the dog darted out: leaving Bill Sikes with the poker and the clasp-knife in his hands.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
17  The dog no doubt heard; because Mr. Sikes spoke in the very harshest key of a very harsh voice; but, appearing to entertain some unaccountable objection to having his throat cut, he remained where he was, and growled more fiercely than before: at the same time grasping the end of the poker between his teeth, and biting at it like a wild beast.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
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