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1  Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  You were differently dressed at that time, and I only passed you in the street, but I should know you again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  A man, dressed like a game-keeper, came up at the moment, and he handed him a basket which lay ready on the pavement.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  He was dressed in a bottle-green coat with a black velvet collar; wore white trousers; and carried a smart bamboo cane under his arm.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  I don't know what comes over me sometimes,' said she, affecting to busy herself in arranging her dress; 'it's this damp dirty room, I think.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  The scanty parish dress, the livery of his misery, hung loosely on his feeble body; and his young limbs had wasted away, like those of an old man.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  And then followed a full description of Oliver's dress, person, appearance, and disappearance: with the name and address of Mr. Brownlow at full length.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  He was dressed in a smartly-cut snuff-coloured coat, with large brass buttons; an orange neckerchief; a coarse, staring, shawl-pattern waistcoat; and drab breeches.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  The medical gentleman walked away to dinner; and the nurse, having once more applied herself to the green bottle, sat down on a low chair before the fire, and proceeded to dress the infant.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
10  He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and the clothes-horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  The curtain at the bed's head was hastily drawn back, and a motherly old lady, very neatly and precisely dressed, rose as she undrew it, from an arm-chair close by, in which she had been sitting at needle-work.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
13  This gentleman walked with much deliberation into the bar to make out the bill: which took a long time making out: and after it was ready, and paid, a horse had to be saddled, and a man to be dressed, which took up ten good minutes more.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
14  At this moment, there walked into the room: supporting himself by a thick stick: a stout old gentleman, rather lame in one leg, who was dressed in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, nankeen breeches and gaiters, and a broad-brimmed white hat, with the sides turned up with green.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  Dressed with the utmost nicety and precision, in a quaint mixture of by-gone costume, with some slight concessions to the prevailing taste, which rather served to point the old style pleasantly than to impair its effect, she sat, in a stately manner, with her hands folded on the table before her.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
16  The girl said nothing more; but, tearing her hair and dress in a transport of passion, made such a rush at the Jew as would probably have left signal marks of her revenge upon him, had not her wrists been seized by Sikes at the right moment; upon which, she made a few ineffectual struggles, and fainted.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
17  She hastily dressed herself in her bonnet and shawl: looking fearfully round, from time to time, as if, despite the sleeping draught, she expected every moment to feel the pressure of Sikes's heavy hand upon her shoulder; then, stooping softly over the bed, she kissed the robber's lips; and then opening and closing the room-door with noiseless touch, hurried from the house.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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