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1  'Three pound ten,' repeated Mr. Limbkins, firmly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Say four pound, and you've got rid of him for good and all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  'It may be nothing; it may be twenty pounds,' replied Monks.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  'I should say, three pound ten was plenty,' said Mr. Limbkins.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
5  And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was afterwards increased to twenty pound.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  If there's anything queer about him when we once get into the work; in for a penny, in for a pound.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  I will give fifty pounds,' cried an old gentleman from the same quarter, 'to the man who takes him alive.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L
8  Add five pounds to the sum you have named; give me five-and-twenty pounds in gold,' said the woman; 'and I'll tell you all I know.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
10  The next morning, the public were once informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take possession of him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
11  You are to say,' said Mr. Brownlow, glancing steadily at Grimwig; 'you are to say that you have brought those books back; and that you have come to pay the four pound ten I owe him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
13  He talked of miseries which his wife had brought upon him; of the rebellious disposition, vice, malice, and premature bad passions of you his only son, who had been trained to hate him; and left you, and your mother, each an annuity of eight hundred pounds.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LI
14  Mr. Bumble drew a long breath, as if he were glad to find that the story was over, and no mention made of taking the five-and-twenty pounds back again; and now he took courage to wipe the perspiration which had been trickling over his nose, unchecked, during the whole of the previous dialogue.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired amount; and, in a species of arithmetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
16  Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
17  After a great deal of haggling and squabbling, Fagin beat down the amount of the required advance from five pounds to three pounds four and sixpence: protesting with many solemn asseverations that that would only leave him eighteen-pence to keep house with; Mr. Sikes sullenly remarking that if he couldn't get any more he must accompany him home; with the Dodger and Master Bates put the eatables in the cupboard.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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