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1  Day was dawning when they again emerged.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  'Mr. Bolter,' replied Noah, who had prepared himself for such emergency.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures emerged on London Bridge.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
4  Mr. Bumble emerged at early morning from the workhouse-gate, and walked with portly carriage and commanding steps, up the High Street.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Avoiding, as much as was possible, all the main streets, and skulking only through the by-ways and alleys, he at length emerged on Snow Hill.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  He was on the point of emerging from his hiding-place, and regaining the road above, when he heard the sound of footsteps, and directly afterwards of voices almost close at his ear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
8  The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent decrepitude; and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  The gate at which they had entered, was softly unfastened and opened by Monks; merely exchanging a nod with their mysterious acquaintance, the married couple emerged into the wet and darkness outside.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  Fagin drew him behind a small partition which was curtained off, and they held their breaths as she passed within a few feet of their place of concealment, and emerged by the door at which they had entered.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  He had reached the corner of his own street, and was already fumbling in his pocket for the door-key, when a dark figure emerged from a projecting entrance which lay in deep shadow, and, crossing the road, glided up to him unperceived.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  Not knowing, very well, what to do, in this uncommon emergency; for Miss Nancy's hysterics were usually of that violent kind which the patient fights and struggles out of, without much assistance; Mr. Sikes tried a little blasphemy: and finding that mode of treatment wholly ineffectual, called for assistance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  But, from this aperture, he had never ceased to call on those without, to guard the back; and thus, when the murderer emerged at last on the house-top by the door in the roof, a loud shout proclaimed the fact to those in front, who immediately began to pour round, pressing upon each other in an unbroken stream.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L
15  Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII