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1  'He knows the alternative,' said Mr. Browlow.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  This flood of tears left Mr. Sowerberry no alternative.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  At his feet, sat a white-coated, red-eyed dog; who occupied himself, alternately, in winking at his master with both eyes at the same time; and in licking a large, fresh cut on one side of his mouth, which appeared to be the result of some recent conflict.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  The girl stamped her foot violently on the floor as she vented this threat; and with her lips compressed, and her hands clenched, looked alternately at the Jew and the other robber: her face quite colourless from the passion of rage into which she had gradually worked herself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired amount; and, in a species of arithmetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III