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1  He drew back the bolts with a trembling hand, and opened the door.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  His feet were sore, and his legs so weak that they trembled beneath him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  If I shake and tremble, as we pass the gallows, don't you mind, but hurry on.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  Feebly raising himself in the bed, with his head resting on his trembling arm, he looked anxiously around.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  He trembled very much though; for, even in his terror, Oliver could see that the knife quivered in the air.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She seemed to speak the truth; her countenance was white and agitated; and she trembled with very earnestness.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  But Oliver felt her hand tremble, and, looking up in her face as they passed a gas-lamp, saw that it had turned a deadly white.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many gentlemen, which made him tremble: and the beadle gave him another tap behind, which made him cry.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Oliver's heart sank at sight of her; for she had never left the bedside of her niece; and he trembled to think what change could have driven her away.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  Little Oliver Twist lay on his back on the pavement, with his shirt unbuttoned, and his temples bathed with water; his face a deadly white; and a cold tremble convulsing his whole frame.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  Oliver, whose eyes had glistened at the mention of meat, and who was trembling with eagerness to devour it, replied in the negative; and a plateful of coarse broken victuals was set before him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Mr. Fang sat behind a bar, at the upper end; and on one side the door was a sort of wooden pen in which poor little Oliver was already deposited; trembling very much at the awfulness of the scene.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  Thus, even while he trembled, and turned burning hot at the idea of speedy death, he fell to counting the iron spikes before him, and wondering how the head of one had been broken off, and whether they would mend it, or leave it as it was.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  A moment before, his clenched hands had grasped the air; his eyes had dilated; and his face grown livid with passion; but now, he shrunk into a chair, and, cowering together, trembled with the apprehension of having himself disclosed some hidden villainy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
16  An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
17  Up and down the ladders, upon the roofs of buildings, over floors that quaked and trembled with his weight, under the lee of falling bricks and stones, in every part of that great fire was he; but he bore a charmed life, and had neither scratch nor bruise, nor weariness nor thought, till morning dawned again, and only smoke and blackened ruins remained.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
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