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1  All his relations let him have his own way pretty well.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  A deal, said the old lady, laughing very heartily at her own acuteness.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The old lady smilingly returned his salutation, and, closing the door, went back to her own room.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Oliver wondered, in his own mind, whether it had taken a very long time to get Mr. Sowerberry used to it.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
5  He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  The boy who addressed this inquiry to the young wayfarer, was about his own age: but one of the queerest looking boys that Oliver had even seen.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  Then, catching hold of the bridle, he gave his jaw a sharp wrench, by way of gentle reminder that he was not his own master; and by these means turned him round.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
8  'Certainly, my boy; certainly,' said the gentleman in the white waistcoat: smiling benignly, and patting Noah's head, which was about three inches higher than his own.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
10  He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance, when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel, and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
11  The sun was rising in all its splendid beauty; but the light only served to show the boy his own lonesomeness and desolation, as he sat, with bleeding feet and covered with dust, upon a door-step.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  And so Oliver remained all that day, and for the greater part of many subsequent days, seeing nobody, between early morning and midnight, and left during the long hours to commune with his own thoughts.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  From this day, Oliver was seldom left alone; but was placed in almost constant communication with the two boys, who played the old game with the Jew every day: whether for their own improvement or Oliver's, Mr. Fagin best knew.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  Having prepared his mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  Every member of the respectable coterie appeared plunged in his own reflections; not excepting the dog, who by a certain malicious licking of his lips seemed to be meditating an attack upon the legs of the first gentleman or lady he might encounter in the streets when he went out.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
16  But, as neither of these criminals answered to the name of Oliver, or knew anything about him, Nancy made straight up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear brother.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
17  Thus, to do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained, will justify; the amount of the right, or the amount of the wrong, or indeed the distinction between the two, being left entirely to the philosopher concerned, to be settled and determined by his clear, comprehensive, and impartial view of his own particular case.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
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