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1  Don't stand there, letting the cold air in, don't.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  'I couldn't do it,' said the Dodger, with an air of haughty disgust.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  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
5  Another night passed in the bleak damp air, made him worse; when he set forward on his journey next morning he could hardly crawl along.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Seated round the table were four or five boys, none older than the Dodger, smoking long clay pipes, and drinking spirits with the air of middle-aged men.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Upon this piece of furniture, the stranger sat himself with the air of a weary man; and the Jew, drawing up the arm-chair opposite, they sat face to face.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  These seemed to have the effect of re-assuring both gentlemen; for the Jew nodded his head with a satisfied air, and resumed his seat: as did Mr. Sikes likewise.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  At length, he began to languish for fresh air, and took many occasions of earnestly entreating the old gentleman to allow him to go out to work with his two companions.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  There was an abstraction in his eye, an elevation in his air, which might have warned an observant stranger that thoughts were passing in the beadle's mind, too great for utterance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Oliver: who was completely stupified by the unwonted exercise, and the air, and the drink which had been forced upon him: put his hand mechanically into that which Sikes extended for the purpose.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  There was little to be made out, in the mist and darkness; but the loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the alarm bell, resounded in every direction.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  As they drew near to their destination, however, Mr. Bumble thought it expedient to look down, and see that the boy was in good order for inspection by his new master: which he accordingly did, with a fit and becoming air of gracious patronage.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  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
15  As he said it, Master Bates caught up an end of his neckerchief; and, holding it erect in the air, dropped his head on his shoulder, and jerked a curious sound through his teeth; thereby indicating, by a lively pantomimic representation, that scragging and hanging were one and the same thing.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
16  The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it savagely up in clouds, and, whirling it into a thousand misty eddies, scattered it in air.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
17  Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind-legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
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