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1  said Rose, mastering the emotions by which she was agitated.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  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
3  She sank into Mr. Bumble's arms; and that gentleman in his agitation, imprinted a passionate kiss upon her chaste nose.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  Sikes remained standing in the street, apparently unmoved by what he had just heard, and agitated by no stronger feeling than a doubt where to go.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  The old man bit his yellow fingers, and meditated for some seconds; his face working with agitation the while, as if he dreaded something, and feared to know the worst.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  The violent agitation of the girl, and the apprehension of some discovery which would subject her to ill-usage and violence, seemed to determine the gentleman to leave her, as she requested.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
7  At nine in the evening,' said the stranger, producing a scrap of paper, and writing down upon it, an obscure address by the water-side, in characters that betrayed his agitation; 'at nine in the evening, bring her to me there.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  They had not talked much upon the way; for Oliver was in a flutter of agitation and uncertainty which deprived him of the power of collecting his thoughts, and almost of speech, and appeared to have scarcely less effect on his companions, who shared it, in at least an equal degree.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LI
10  If she betrayed any agitation, when she presented herself to Mr. Sikes, he did not observe it; for merely inquiring if she had brought the money, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, he uttered a growl of satisfaction, and replacing his head upon the pillow, resumed the slumbers which her arrival had interrupted.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  She had taken up the same pen, and laid it down again fifty times, and had considered and reconsidered the first line of her letter without writing the first word, when Oliver, who had been walking in the streets, with Mr. Giles for a body-guard, entered the room in such breathless haste and violent agitation, as seemed to betoken some new cause of alarm.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI