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1  It was quite dark when he was awakened by a push from Sikes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  When he saw Oliver, he pushed the book away from him, and told him to come near the table, and sit down.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  'Outside, outside,' replied Fagin, pushing the boy before him towards the door, and looking vacantly over his head.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  With these injunctions, he pushed the rattling door with his shoulder, and entered the house, followed by his companion.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  His conductor, catching him by the arm, pushed open the door of a house near Field Lane; and drawing him into the passage, closed it behind them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  He thrust his hand into a side-pocket; and producing a canvas bag, told out twenty-five sovereigns on the table, and pushed them over to the woman.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  She pushed the candle impatiently away; and once or twice as she feverishly changed her position, shuffled her feet upon the ground; but this was all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  She took her feet off the fender, pushed back her chair, and bade Fagin draw up his, without saying more about it: for it was a cold night, and no mistake.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  As he spoke, he pushed a couple of sovereigns across the table to his companion, carefully, as though unwilling that the chinking of money should be heard without.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  Mr. Brownlow merely nodded to Mr. Grimwig, who disappearing with great alacrity, shortly returned, pushing in Mrs. Bumble, and dragging her unwilling consort after him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LI
11  A great multitude had already assembled; the windows were filled with people, smoking and playing cards to beguile the time; the crowd were pushing, quarrelling, joking.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
12  With these words, he pushed them from the room: and carefully double-locking and barring the door behind them, drew from its place of concealment the box which he had unintentionally disclosed to Oliver.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  Oliver lay, covered with mud and dust, and bleeding from the mouth, looking wildly round upon the heap of faces that surrounded him, when the old gentleman was officiously dragged and pushed into the circle by the foremost of the pursuers.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
14  Mr. Sikes being weak from the fever, was lying in bed, taking hot water with his gin to render it less inflammatory; and had pushed his glass towards Nancy to be replenished for the third or fourth time, when these symptoms first struck him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  Muttering a curse upon his tardiness, Sikes pushed Oliver before him; and they entered a low dark room with a smoky fire, two or three broken chairs, a table, and a very old couch: on which, with his legs much higher than his head, a man was reposing at full length, smoking a long clay pipe.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
16  The two old crones, chiming in together, began pouring out many piteous lamentations that the poor dear was too far gone to know her best friends; and were uttering sundry protestations that they would never leave her, when the superior pushed them from the room, closed the door, and returned to the bedside.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
17  This done, she created a little variety by scratching his face, and tearing his hair; and, having, by this time, inflicted as much punishment as she deemed necessary for the offence, she pushed him over a chair, which was luckily well situated for the purpose: and defied him to talk about his prerogative again, if he dared.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
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