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1  'If you please, sir,' said Oliver.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  'If you please, sir,' returned Mr. Blathers.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  'Yes; do let me take them, if you please, sir,' said Oliver.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Carry them into execution so far as your brother is concerned, and then go where you please.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  Nor was Mr. Bumble's gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of a spectator.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  The Jew glanced contemptuously at the pale face of his associate, and, telling him he could follow, if he pleased, ascended the stairs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  When it became quite dark, and they returned home, the young lady would sit down to the piano, and play some pleasant air, or sing, in a low and gentle voice, some old song which it pleased her aunt to hear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  Every morning he went to a white-headed old gentleman, who lived near the little church: who taught him to read better, and to write: and who spoke so kindly, and took such pains, that Oliver could never try enough to please him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  Then, there were the walks as usual, and many calls at the clean houses of the labouring men; and at night, Oliver read a chapter or two from the Bible, which he had been studying all the week, and in the performance of which duty he felt more proud and pleased, than if he had been the clergyman himself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  At first, he was pleased with the discovery: hoping that it might be the forerunner of his release; but such thoughts were quickly dispelled, on his sitting down to breakfast along with the Jew, who told him, in a tone and manner which increased his alarm, that he was to be taken to the residence of Bill Sikes that night.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  All this, Mr. Brownlow, although himself somewhat of an impetuous gentleman: knowing his friend's peculiarities, bore with great good humour; as Mr. Grimwig, at tea, was graciously pleased to express his entire approval of the muffins, matters went on very smoothly; and Oliver, who made one of the party, began to feel more at his ease than he had yet done in the fierce old gentleman's presence.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV