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1  Nor were these the only dismal feelings which depressed Oliver.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Before the door, were three tall poplar trees, which made it very dark within; and the wind moaned through them with a dismal wail.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  He felt frightened at first, for the wind moaned dismally over the empty fields: and he was cold and hungry, and more alone than he had ever felt before.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Near to the spot on which Snow Hill and Holborn Hill meet, opens, upon the right hand as you come out of the City, a narrow and dismal alley, leading to Saffron Hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  The undertaker, who had just put up the shutters of his shop, was making some entries in his day-book by the light of a most appropriate dismal candle, when Mr. Bumble entered.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  A dog, which had lain concealed till now, ran backwards and forwards on the parapet with a dismal howl, and collecting himself for a spring, jumped for the dead man's shoulders.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L
7  From all of these tokens Oliver concluded that a long time ago, before the old Jew was born, it had belonged to better people, and had perhaps been quite gay and handsome: dismal and dreary as it looked now.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  The lights in the shops could scarecely struggle through the heavy mist, which thickened every moment and shrouded the streets and houses in gloom; rendering the strange place still stranger in Oliver's eyes; and making his uncertainty the more dismal and depressing.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  For the rest of the day, he was shut up in the back kitchen, in company with a pump and a slice of bread; and at night, Mrs. Sowerberry, after making various remarks outside the door, by no means complimentary to the memory of his mother, looked into the room, and, amidst the jeers and pointings of Noah and Charlotte, ordered him upstairs to his dismal bed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII