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1  However, men always think they know best.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Oliver roused himself, and made his best obeisance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  We must make the best of it; and if bad be the best, it is no fault of ours.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Bumble, just step up to Sowerberry's with your cane, and see what's best to be done.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  He was alone in a strange place; and we all know how chilled and desolate the best of us will sometimes feel in such a situation.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
6  The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and, the best of them is, that it never lasts.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  But, thinking that the Jew, being so much his senior, must know best, he followed him quietly to the table, and was soon deeply involved in his new study.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  From this day, Oliver was seldom left alone; but was placed in almost constant communication with the two boys, who played the old game with the Jew every day: whether for their own improvement or Oliver's, Mr. Fagin best knew.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Oliver's offence having been explained to him, with such exaggerations as the ladies thought best calculated to rouse his ire, he unlocked the cellar-door in a twinkling, and dragged his rebellious apprentice out, by the collar.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, forever, on my best affections.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  These things looked so bad, that Oliver was on the point of declaring his intention of seeking his way back, in the best way he could; when his thoughts were suddenly directed into another channel, by a very mysterious change of behaviour on the part of the Dodger.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
12  Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Catching up the light, they made the best of their way home, at a good round trot; and long after their dusky forms had ceased to be discernible, the light might have been seen twinkling and dancing in the distance, like some exhalation of the damp and gloomy atmosphere through which it was swiftly borne.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  The two old crones, chiming in together, began pouring out many piteous lamentations that the poor dear was too far gone to know her best friends; and were uttering sundry protestations that they would never leave her, when the superior pushed them from the room, closed the door, and returned to the bedside.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  While these, and many other encomiums, were being passed on the accomplished Nancy, that young lady made the best of her way to the police-office; whither, notwithstanding a little natural timidity consequent upon walking through the streets alone and unprotected, she arrived in perfect safety shortly afterwards.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
16  Having rested here, for a minute or so, to collect a good burst of sobs and an imposing show of tears and terror, he knocked loudly at the wicket; and presented such a rueful face to the aged pauper who opened it, that even he, who saw nothing but rueful faces about him at the best of times, started back in astonishment.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
17  This suggested itself as the very best thing that could possibly be done with him: the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
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