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1  He remembered to have seen the waggons, as they went out, toiling up the hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Pointing in the direction of Saffron Hill, he inquired whether any one was up yonder to-night.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Oliver was just considering whether he hadn't better run away, when they reached the bottom of the hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  They stood now, on the summit of a little hill, commanding the open fields in every direction for three or four miles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  Avoiding, as much as was possible, all the main streets, and skulking only through the by-ways and alleys, he at length emerged on Snow Hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Near to the spot on which Snow Hill and Holborn Hill meet, opens, upon the right hand as you come out of the City, a narrow and dismal alley, leading to Saffron Hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  The crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, and down a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led beneath a low archway, and up a dirty court, into this dispensary of summary justice, by the back way.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  He waited at the bottom of a steep hill till a stage-coach came up, and then begged of the outside passengers; but there were very few who took any notice of him: and even those told him to wait till they got to the top of the hill, and then let them see how far he could run for a halfpenny.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  It was nine o'clock at night, when the man, quite tired out, and the dog, limping and lame from the unaccustomed exercise, turned down the hill by the church of the quiet village, and plodding along the little street, crept into a small public-house, whose scanty light had guided them to the spot.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
10  He went through Islington; strode up the hill at Highgate on which stands the stone in honour of Whittington; turned down to Highgate Hill, unsteady of purpose, and uncertain where to go; struck off to the right again, almost as soon as he began to descend it; and taking the foot-path across the fields, skirted Caen Wood, and so came on Hampstead Heath.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  He went through Islington; strode up the hill at Highgate on which stands the stone in honour of Whittington; turned down to Highgate Hill, unsteady of purpose, and uncertain where to go; struck off to the right again, almost as soon as he began to descend it; and taking the foot-path across the fields, skirted Caen Wood, and so came on Hampstead Heath.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII