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1  He drew back the bolts with a trembling hand, and opened the door.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  It being a cold night, the Dodger wore his hat, as, indeed, was often his custom within doors.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  Oliver, shut that door at Mister Noah's back, and take them bits that I've put out on the cover of the bread-pan.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
5  The lady modestly hesitated to reply, lest there should be any impropriety in holding an interview with Mr. Bumble, with closed doors.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  There were some ragged children in another corner; and in a small recess, opposite the door, there lay upon the ground, something covered with an old blanket.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  The accounts of his ferocity as related by Mrs. Sowerberry and Charlotte, were of so startling a nature, that Mr. Bumble judged it prudent to parley, before opening the door.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  There were a good many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The lady faints away at the doors of charitable publicans, and the gentleman being accommodated with three-penny worth of brandy to restore her, lays an information next day, and pockets half the penalty.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIII
10  The apertures, where doors and windows stood an hour ago, disclosed a mass of raging fire; walls rocked and crumbled into the burning well; the molten lead and iron poured down, white hot, upon the ground.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  The rooms upstairs had great high wooden chimney-pieces and large doors, with panelled walls and cornices to the ceiling; which, although they were black with neglect and dust, were ornamented in various ways.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  In Jacob's Island, the warehouses are roofless and empty; the walls are crumbling down; the windows are windows no more; the doors are falling into the streets; the chimneys are blackened, but they yield no smoke.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L
13  Oliver stared innocently in Mr. Bumble's face at this somewhat contradictory style of address; but that gentleman prevented his offering any remark thereupon, by leading him at once into an adjoining room: the door of which was open.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
14  From this place, they passed through several strong gates, opened by other turnkeys from the inner side; and, having entered an open yard, ascended a flight of narrow steps, and came into a passage with a row of strong doors on the left hand.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  There was neither knocker nor bell-handle at the open door where Oliver and his master stopped; so, groping his way cautiously through the dark passage, and bidding Oliver keep close to him and not be afraid the undertaker mounted to the top of the first flight of stairs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
16  Well,' said the robber, grasping Oliver's wrist, and putting the barrel so close to his temple that they touched; at which moment the boy could not repress a start; 'if you speak a word when you're out o'doors with me, except when I speak to you, that loading will be in your head without notice.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
17  Coffin-plates, elm-chips, bright-headed nails, and shreds of black cloth, lay scattered on the floor; and the wall behind the counter was ornamented with a lively representation of two mutes in very stiff neckcloths, on duty at a large private door, with a hearse drawn by four black steeds, approaching in the distance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
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