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1  They crossed to the opposite side of the street, and stood for a few moments under a lamp.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  As the brilliant light of the lamp which burnt before its door, guided her to the spot, the clock struck eleven.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  He did so; and, by the light of the lamps, saw the girl's retreating figure, already at some distance before him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  He hurried through several alleys and streets, and at length turned into one, lighted only by a single lamp at the farther end.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Then come with me,' said Mrs. Sowerberry: taking up a dim and dirty lamp, and leading the way upstairs; 'your bed's under the counter.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  He shook his fist, and would have spat upon them; but his conductors hurried him on, through a gloomy passage lighted by a few dim lamps, into the interior of the prison.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  Regardless of all this: for she had weightier matters at heart: Nancy followed the man, with trembling limbs, to a small ante-chamber, lighted by a lamp from the ceiling.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  A young woman stumbled over a bit last night, and fell against my garden-railings; directly she got up I saw her look towards his infernal red lamp with the pantomime-light.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  The ceiling was blackened, to prevent its colour from being injured by the flaring of the lamps; and the place was so full of dense tobacco smoke, that at first it was scarcely possible to discern anything more.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp down on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
11  There was a faint glimmering of the coming day in the sky; but it rather aggravated than relieved the gloom of the scene: the sombre light only serving to pale that which the street lamps afforded, without shedding any warmer or brighter tints upon the wet house-tops, and dreary streets.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  Many of the lamps were already extinguished; a few country waggons were slowly toiling on, towards London; now and then, a stage-coach, covered with mud, rattled briskly by: the driver bestowing, as he passed, an admonitory lash upon the heavy waggoner who, by keeping on the wrong side of the road, had endangered his arriving at the office, a quarter of a minute after his time.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI