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1  Give him something to drink, Nancy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Sikes pouring out a glass of brandy, bade the Jew drink it off.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  There's your tea; take it away to that box, and drink it there, and make haste, for they'll want you to mind the shop.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Mr. Bumble stepped in; and ordering something to drink, as he passed the bar, entered the apartment into which he had looked from the street.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Seated round the table were four or five boys, none older than the Dodger, smoking long clay pipes, and drinking spirits with the air of middle-aged men.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Now,' said Sikes, as he resumed his seat, 'if you'll give us something to eat and drink while we're waiting, you'll put some heart in us; or in me, at all events.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  Oliver ate his share, and the Jew then mixed him a glass of hot gin-and-water: telling him he must drink it off directly, because another gentleman wanted the tumbler.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  And very amiable he looked, and a very low bow he made, as he advanced, and setting himself down at the nearest table, ordered something to drink of the grinning Barney.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  Oliver: who was completely stupified by the unwonted exercise, and the air, and the drink which had been forced upon him: put his hand mechanically into that which Sikes extended for the purpose.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  The kitchen was an old, low-roofed room; with a great beam across the middle of the ceiling, and benches, with high backs to them, by the fire; on which were seated several rough men in smock-frocks, drinking and smoking.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  These preliminaries adjusted, Mr. Sikes proceeded to drink brandy at a furious rate, and to flourish the crowbar in an alarming manner; yelling forth, at the same time, most unmusical snatches of song, mingled with wild execrations.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  Master Bates saw something so exquisitely ludicrous in this reply, that he burst into another laugh; which laugh, meeting the coffee he was drinking, and carrying it down some wrong channel, very nearly terminated in his premature suffocation.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  As that day closed in, the girl's excitement increased; and, when night came on, and she sat by, watching until the housebreaker should drink himself asleep, there was an unusual paleness in her cheek, and a fire in her eye, that even Sikes observed with astonishment.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
16  The old lady made no reply to this; but wiping her eyes first, and her spectacles, which lay on the counterpane, afterwards, as if they were part and parcel of those features, brought some cool stuff for Oliver to drink; and then, patting him on the cheek, told him he must lie very quiet, or he would be ill again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
17  Mr. Bumble, having spread a handkerchief over his knees to prevent the crumbs from sullying the splendour of his shorts, began to eat and drink; varying these amusements, occasionally, by fetching a deep sigh; which, however, had no injurious effect upon his appetite, but, on the contrary, rather seemed to facilitate his operations in the tea and toast department.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
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