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1  A slight bustle in the court, recalled him to himself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  The court was paved, from floor to roof, with human faces.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  He meant this to be ironical, but it was true besides; for the Dodger and Charley Bates had filed off down the first convenient court they came to.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
4  The narrow streets and courts, at length, terminated in a large open space; scattered about which, were pens for beasts, and other indications of a cattle-market.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  It was not until the two boys had scoured, with great rapidity, through a most intricate maze of narrow streets and courts, that they ventured to halt beneath a low and dark archway.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  In another moment he was dragged into a labyrinth of dark narrow courts, and was forced along them at a pace which rendered the few cries he dared to give utterance to, unintelligible.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  They led him through a paved room under the court, where some prisoners were waiting till their turns came, and others were talking to their friends, who crowded round a grate which looked into the open yard.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
8  Here he walked even faster than before; nor did he linger until he had again turned into a court; when, as if conscious that he was now in his proper element, he fell into his usual shuffling pace, and seemed to breathe more freely.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  Away they run, pell-mell, helter-skelter, slap-dash: tearing, yelling, screaming, knocking down the passengers as they turn the corners, rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re-echo with the sound.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  The crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, and down a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led beneath a low archway, and up a dirty court, into this dispensary of summary justice, by the back way.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  The Dodger made no reply; but putting his hat on again, and gathering the skirts of his long-tailed coat under his arm, thrust his tongue into his cheek, slapped the bridge of his nose some half-dozen times in a familiar but expressive manner, and turning on his heel, slunk down the court.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Oliver, having taken down the shutters, and broken a pane of glass in his effort to stagger away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day, was graciously assisted by Noah: who having consoled him with the assurance that 'he'd catch it,' condescended to help him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V