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1  That's the rule now, Mrs. Corney, all over the country.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  I think he's got out of the country, and left the dog behind.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L
3  They'll never expect to nab me there, after this country scent.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  We are going into the country, and my aunt intends that you shall accompany us.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  Oliver glanced at it, and saw that it was directed to Harry Maylie, Esquire, at some great lord's house in the country; where, he could not make out.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  They resided,' said Mr. Brownlow, without seeming to hear the interruption, 'in a part of the country to which your father in his wandering had repaired, and where he had taken up his abode.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  If Oliver were behindhand in these respects, he knew where the best were to be found; and morning after morning they scoured the country together, and brought home the fairest that blossomed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  Cod, yer may thanks yer stars I've got a head; for if we hadn't gone, at first, the wrong road a purpose, and come back across country, yer'd have been locked up hard and fast a week ago, my lady.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  Bill,' cried the girl, striving to lay her head upon his breast, 'the gentleman and that dear lady, told me to-night of a home in some foreign country where I could end my days in solitude and peace.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  Sending the plate, which had so excited Fagin's cupidity, to the banker's; and leaving Giles and another servant in care of the house, they departed to a cottage at some distance in the country, and took Oliver with them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  'A gentleman we met on the road, coming up from the country, recommended us here,' said Noah, nudging Charlotte, perhaps to call her attention to this most ingenious device for attracting respect, and perhaps to warn her to betray no surprise.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
12  This was an antic fellow, half pedlar and half mountebank, who travelled about the country on foot to vend hones, strops, razors, washballs, harness-paste, medicine for dogs and horses, cheap perfumery, cosmetics, and such-like wares, which he carried in a case slung to his back.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
13  I do not say that it is in our power to offer you peace of heart and mind, for that must come as you seek it; but a quiet asylum, either in England, or, if you fear to remain here, in some foreign country, it is not only within the compass of our ability but our most anxious wish to secure you.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
14  Thus equipped, he was to saunter into the office, as some country fellow from Covent Garden market might be supposed to do for the gratification of his curiousity; and as he was as awkward, ungainly, and raw-boned a fellow as need be, Mr. Fagin had no fear but that he would look the part to perfection.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  Many of the lamps were already extinguished; a few country waggons were slowly toiling on, towards London; now and then, a stage-coach, covered with mud, rattled briskly by: the driver bestowing, as he passed, an admonitory lash upon the heavy waggoner who, by keeping on the wrong side of the road, had endangered his arriving at the office, a quarter of a minute after his time.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI