1 She was found lying in the street.
2 The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours.
3 They crossed to the opposite side of the street, and stood for a few moments under a lamp.
4 The window-shutters were closed; the street was empty; not a soul had awakened to the business of the day.
5 For one brief moment, Oliver cast a hurried glance along the empty street, and a cry for help hung upon his lips.
6 It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy.
7 There's always more or less orange-peel on the pavement in our street; and I know it's put there by the surgeon's boy at the corner.
8 At the door of a house in this street, he knocked; having exchanged a few muttered words with the person who opened it, he walked upstairs.
9 The Dodger and Master Bates, unwilling to attract public attention by running down the open street, had merely retired into the very first doorway round the corner.
10 The Jew stopped for an instant at the corner of the street; and, glancing suspiciously round, crossed the road, and struck off in the direction of the Spitalfields.
11 An old black cloak had been thrown over the rags of the old woman and the man; and the bare coffin having been screwed down, was hoisted on the shoulders of the bearers, and carried into the street.
12 Mrs. Bedwin followed him to the street-door, giving him many directions about the nearest way, and the name of the bookseller, and the name of the street: all of which Oliver said he clearly understood.
13 He paused on the step as the door was locked and chained behind him; and having listened while the boys made all secure, and until their retreating footsteps were no longer audible, slunk down the street as quickly as he could.
14 They walked on, for some time, through the most crowded and densely inhabited part of the town; and then, striking down a narrow street more dirty and miserable than any they had yet passed through, paused to look for the house which was the object of their search.
15 The gas-lamps were lighted; Mrs. Bedwin was waiting anxiously at the open door; the servant had run up the street twenty times to see if there were any traces of Oliver; and still the two old gentlemen sat, perseveringly, in the dark parlour, with the watch between them.
16 The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady street near Pentonville.
17 Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.
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