1 'Let me see,' pursued the merchant, reflecting.
2 I have considered, ever since I have been capable of serious reflection.
3 After a brief reflection, he called a hack-cabriolet, and bade the man drive towards Bethnal Green.
4 As the reflection occured to him, he stepped forward: and said, somewhat hastily, that he was ready.
5 But as Mr. Sikes DID care, on reflection, he dropped his voice as he said the words, and grew calmer.
6 The old man turned to close the door, as he made this reflection; the noise thus occasioned, roused the girl.
7 It was not quite dark; the door was partially open; and the candle outside, threw a feeble reflection on the opposite wall.
8 With these, and other muttered reflections of the like nature, the Jew once more deposited the watch in its place of safety.
9 Master Charles Bates, appalled by Sikes's crime, fell into a train of reflection whether an honest life was not, after all, the best.
10 Here is another letter,' said Mrs. Maylie, pausing to reflect; 'but whether to send it now, or wait until I see how Rose goes on, I scarcely know.
11 Mr. Bumble put down his hat; unbuttoned his coat; folded his arms; inclined his head in a retrospective manner; and, after a few moments' reflection, commenced his story.
12 Mr. Brownlow's indignation was greatly roused; but reflecting perhaps, that he might only injure the boy by giving vent to it, he suppressed his feelings and submitted to be sworn at once.
13 The old smoke-stained storehouses on either side, rose heavy and dull from the dense mass of roofs and gables, and frowned sternly upon water too black to reflect even their lumbering shapes.
14 Oliver lay awake for some time, counting the little circles of light which the reflection of the rushlight-shade threw upon the ceiling; or tracing with his languid eyes the intricate pattern of the paper on the wall.
15 As Mr. Sowerberry said this, with the becoming indignation of an ill-used man; and as Mr. Bumble felt that it rather tended to convey a reflection on the honour of the parish; the latter gentleman thought it advisable to change the subject.
16 Once he threw a rug over it; but it was worse to fancy the eyes, and imagine them moving towards him, than to see them glaring upward, as if watching the reflection of the pool of gore that quivered and danced in the sunlight on the ceiling.
17 Mr. Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his eyes moodily fixed on the cheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam proceeded, than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which were sent back from its cold and shining surface.
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